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Ogaden is the land of hundreds of thousands of martyrs in the name of freedom and justice. It is the cradle of revolutionary heroes as well as the centre of Somali culture and heritage.

In the middle of the 16th Century, Ahmed Guray and his men fought with Abyssinian aggressors in order to avers the latter's permanent threat to the land of the Somalis.

After the defeat of the Abyssinians, a European colonial power, Portugal, quickly came to their aid. In the conflict that followed, Ahmed Guran was killed by Portugese troops.

Imaam Ahmed Gurey Mosque in Harar---->




The Somali Dervish Liberation Movement (1895-1922)led by the celebrated Somali liberation leader Sayid Mohamed Abdulla Hassan/WARRIOR/POET/FREEDOM FIGHTER/ ISLAMIC SCHOLAR and charismatic leader fought for more than 20 years and led armed resistance against all colonialists in Somali lands.
The British Royal army failed to defeat until it used military aircraft against them in the first aerial bombardment ever used by a European power in Africa, even before the Italian air bombardment of Libya.











Wiil Waal, Absame Sultan, that Lived In The 16th Century, And Was The National hero Who Drove The Last Of The Galla Kings From Jigjigga.

The Whole Area Around Jigjiga And Harar Was His province. He Composed Many Giiraar, Including * The Bond Between Kings*, What He Actually Did In His Lifetime Has Probably Become Coloured By Time To A Large Extent, And He Himself Is Something Of A Legendary Figure.

Many Tales Are Told About Him And Ofcourse Their Truth Can Be Vouched For.
Wiil-Waal Was Actually A Gerad, Although he's generally Called Sultan Nowadays But He Lived Before The Arabic Title Was Commonly Used Here. Gerad Was The Second In The Importance-Of-Leaders Hierarchy.

Among His Stories Are...

Wiil Waal And The Sheep's Gullet.

Wiil Waal And The Silver Ring.

Wiil Waal And The Wisest Man

wiil waal and his armies finish the galla armies and that's why people still automatically respect wiil waal and create countless stories about the somali legend.

the man created fear in the galla ayes!!!

R.E.S.P.E.C.T!!!

Modern Day Martyrs +Legends:


ONLF-guul iyo gobanimo mar dhaw..shaqo wanaagsan ayey hayaan...
Diiga Xabashidaa dheefta ugu macaan (The best diet is the blood of Habesha)....










Sheikh Ibrahim Abdalle Mohamed "Mah"

HIS MIDDLE LIFE AS A FREEDOM FIGHTER

He resigned from the educational assignments that he was holding for Somalia and joined Western Somali Liberation Front in 1976, activating the military and political philosophy of the then Somali-backed movement, WSLF,. He was sent to Abu Dhabi in 1981, as a diplomatic representative for Western Somali Liberation Front.

After the sheer military and political abortion of WSLF as a result of the direct military intervention of Somali armed forces, sheikh Ibrahim co-founded Ogaden National Liberation Front in 1984.
In 1991, he was elected the chairman of ONLF and he had been holding that post till 1998.

February 1994, Sheikh Ibrahim narrowly escaped from an assassination attempt by Ethiopian battalion based in Warder. He was defended by the people of Warder with the help of ONLF fighters scouting him, and, many Ethiopian soldiers and almost 100 civilians from Warder died because of him.

It was reported that Sheikh Ibrahim took part in some of the deadliest armed confrontations between ONLF battalion and Ethiopian garrison in the war-torn Ogaden. Some tidings said that he acted field commander in the front line to give his soldiers moral support.


HIS PERSONALITY

Sheikh Ibrahim was a charismatic born-leader with adamant political objectives. He was an outspoken Islamic scholar and a profound patriot who believed in death for the sake of his country and in the defense of his Islamic belief. He was an honest and God-fearing man. He was a great ideologue yarning for Arab unity and Somalis nicknamed him "The pro-Arab campaigner in the Horn of Africa." He was a confident and firm freedom-fighter longing for the martyrdom of his targeted mission under any circumstance.
My first and last meeting with him in Khartoum by the end of 2006, I put the following question to him, "Ethiopia has got one of the strongest armies in Africa and your fighting with it prolonged the suffering of the Ogaden citizens. Are you capable of vanquishing this powerful and regular force? If not so, why don't you negotiate with the government, Ethiopia?" Sheikh Ibrahim smiled and replied to me, "My NO TO ETHIOPIAN COLONISATION is stronger than the strong armed forces that you mentioned. We have gallant and stronger fighters than theirs, and, we are ready to fight them to the end till they peacefully withdraw from our homeland - Ogaden. Our brave and patient people can't accept the oligarchic colonial rule of the up-starts - the minority Tigtay, under the despotic and autocratic instruction of the callow leadership of Mr Zenawi."

He Died 24 June 2008





Dr Mohammed Sirad Dolaal

On Saturday, 17 January 2009, Dr. Mohammed Sirad Dolaal was killed by enemy fire while he was carrying out his duty: defending the people and the land he loved the most.

The loss of freedom fighter is not new for our people as thousands of brave ogadenis, young, old, men and women, paid the highest price, their life, defending their dignity, freedom, families, communities, property and country throughout the last century.

Many more thousand of our people, from all walks of life will sacrifice their life for our land.

Mansha alaah walee queen
dhabb ah baatahay

a blessed land indeed hopefully all the blood that was shed for this land will bear fruit soon inshallah.

Great Thread Queen

queen maansha allah keep up the good work huuno

Is been a while since i made a educational thread

Imam Ahmad Ibrahim Al Ghazi, walle the best inspirational leader of all Somali generation to come, from Harrar aswell

^^^ Ahmed-Gurey

Queen_Arawello wrote:^^^ Ahmed-Gurey

will you marry me if i become a jmxo fighter? and come back

NY, how many colonialists did the Sayyid actually kill?

abakar20 wrote:NY, how many colonialists did the Sayyid actually kill?

as a result of the sayed fighting them, the british, french and italians and their ethiopian dogs left somali lands for many years and only stepped up their game once the first world war was over and they heard the sayed died, we were the first nation to be attacked by airplanes outside of western europe ( the germans and french were killing each other with airplanes between 1914-1918) thus the italians fully got back to somalia in 1936 and started official colonisation of somalia,ethiopia and eriteria.itronically we are the last nation to be colinised in africa and of the last lands to have been invaded in the world, italy colonised somalia, ethiopia and eriteria between 1936-1943, as a result of italy allying with hitler hence as a result the british invaded somalia, ethiopia and eriteria and in 1943 and the americans invaded italy and reestablshed the italian king emanual back in power, britian ''freed'' these nations ( east africa) by putting them under ''UN trusteeeship under free italy state'' in 1946 and hence ''free'' italy gave us indepence with ''UN'' backing in 1960, as a result of 7 years of italian colonisation of ethiopia ( between 1936-1943) the ethiopian calnder is offcialy 2003 now, not 2010, this is desgined to deny any italian occupation, check the ethiopain calander if u dont belive this.

*in 1893, the italians purchased one of the eriterian islands from the ottoman empire and then the whole land by 1900s, but left after the war with the sayed, this was one of the arguments the eriterians used when they were getting independence from ethiopia in 1993. eriteria or northern habashia was signed off by ethiopia in 1559 to Nuuredeen, the nephew of Ahmed Guure and was given to the ottomans for their assistence and their interests to keep the red sea coasts free of chritian powers as the portuguese once bombed jeddah in 1517 and tried to invade hijaz and this alarmed salim, the father of sulayman the magnificent, sultan of ottoman turk and the conquoror of Ukrain, moldova, russian cremia and southern poland, as a result, salim invaded egypt, sudan, yemen, hijaz as he was so worried about the portuguese roaming around the red sea. after they got eriteria, the ottmans left the somalis as they knew they could fend for them selfs unlike the arabs: this is also ironaically when the famous prover was born: ''arab waa nag''

the defeated ethiopians were pushed back to their lands in amharia and tigra province and were made to signed off todays '' Ogadenia''and eriteria over to the somalis and ottomans respectively in 1559 and thus the absame multiplied.

the sayed was even offered kingship by the british just like the saud family and thr hassan family of jordan, just think, if he took it, the ogadenians could have been the kings of somalia to this day......but how can a white flower make us the kings when we already were and had man such as ugas Will waal, the first to unite every somali behind him as a king, and of course raage ugas and nuur cubudiye, mohoumed waal, ahmed magan, ugas warfa, ugas magan etc, man of noble purity indeed!!

a bit of history for u kids!! know ur history!!