Who is responsible for the downfall?

[Arabischer]

A clear majority voted the regime was responsible.

[Smile-LiKe-SuN-RiSE]

SNM and USC

[Cirwaaq]

Conclusion

[Knight of Wisdom]

SSDF, Then SNM, Then USC (ALL SUPPORTED BY ETHIOPIA and THE WEST).

[Arabischer]

SSDF, Then SNM, Then USC (ALL SUPPORTED BY ETHIOPIA and THE WEST).

Why did the West conspire with the armed opposition against the regime?

[Abdihaliim]

Ethiopia Somalia Ogaden War 1976-1978

[Ninxoon2]

blame hawiye hutu 100%

[ahmad guray]

We all have different opinions, but the poll should tell us who is right.

Hutu and s diid

[Arabischer]

Interesting. It appears multinickers are manipulating the poll.

[gemini_snake]

Anyway Somalia was a land drawn by colonialists and had no historical connection. Northerners and Southerners who had different cultures were lumped together and those that had served the brutal colonialists became its leaders and run its parliament.

Thus it was a predicament that the country would one day collapse.

right on.

somalis have never been under one governing body until it was forced upon us by the colonial powers. if you take a bunch of animals that have never lived together and force them into a cage, one shouldn't surprised if they kill each other. that's why a central government will never work in somalia.

[Cirwaaq]

Anyway Somalia was a land drawn by colonialists and had no historical connection. Northerners and Southerners who had different cultures were lumped together and those that had served the brutal colonialists became its leaders and run its parliament.

Thus it was a predicament that the country would one day collapse.

right on.

somalis have never been under one governing body until it was forced upon us by the colonial powers. if you take a bunch of animals that have never lived together and force them into a cage, one shouldn't surprised if they kill each other. that's why a central government will never work in somalia.

We already know what works!

- Dictatorship
- Extremism

Nomads will never volunteer to be lead it goes against our heritage.

[Shirib]

It depends on what angle you look at it from.
1) Historical
2) Economical
3)Cultural
4)External Factors

MSB AU had both negative and positive aspects but this is not an excuse for the entire destruction of Somalia to be blame at him .

There has been successful regime changes across the world like Uganda, Rwanda etc nothing has been recorded of the somali proportion.
Seems like folks from somalia never fought for independence to know what it is and preferred to be servitudes to the Colonialists.

Anyway Somalia was a land drawn by colonialists and had no historical connection. Northerners and Southerners who had different cultures were lumped together and those that had served the brutal colonialists became its leaders and run its parliament.

Thus it was a predicament that the country would one day collapse.

What were the different cultures between the north and south?

[DisplacedDiraac]

Somali diaspora!!

[gemini_snake]

Anyway Somalia was a land drawn by colonialists and had no historical connection. Northerners and Southerners who had different cultures were lumped together and those that had served the brutal colonialists became its leaders and run its parliament.

Thus it was a predicament that the country would one day collapse.

right on.

somalis have never been under one governing body until it was forced upon us by the colonial powers. if you take a bunch of animals that have never lived together and force them into a cage, one shouldn't surprised if they kill each other. that's why a central government will never work in somalia.

We already know what works!

- Dictatorship
- Extremism

Nomads will never volunteer to be lead it goes against our heritage.

first of all, the "somalia" project failed because it was doomed to fail. like i said before somalis have never been under one governing body before so forcing it on us was a big mistake. the fact that language and religion could not unite us is enough evidence of that. clearly somalis have different interests, cultural practices, outlooks on life etc. some people on here think these are just minor difference but why are we still fighting then?

[Arabischer]

Somali diaspora!!

You could be right. The educated, the experienced, the intellectual, etc-- instead of manning up and fixing the problems, they fled.