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unbelievable. 6 years. ethopian occupation ssdf traitors bring mengistu. then they surrendered to msb then they lost again to usc. the only niggas to lose 3 times in a single civil war no doubt. balanbale people appreciate the the consequences of ssdf treason. ssdf gave the town to their master mengistu n he only 2 mosques standing. everything else gone. unbelievable

Balanbale been through alot…Allah ha siyaadiyo barwaaqada iyo nabadey haystaan.

Noer-

Balanbale town was just the tip of the Iceberg.

Bah Geri elders speaking from Shilabo town give the following testimony when the video is @ 10:54:



"We [Bah Geri] have historically lived here [Shilabo], so too has Awrtable [Darod]; Marehan are the historical owners of this land. The Dergue [Menguste government] & "Majerteen Kulmis" [SSDF] uprooted them [in 1982]."

That is all you need to know.

That is an Ogaden/Bah Geri elder speaking from "Shilabo town."

To add to the above post;

In general though, while that era is an important chapter in the history of Balanbale town and generally of the Marehan Somali people between Balanbale and Shilabo settlements; the modern history of Balanbale is larger and is more strongly represented by extraordinary preserverence, recovery, and even triumph..

Balanbale of today is far from the destroyed town levelled to the ground with only 3 standing structures after a 6 year war occupation being used as artillery target practice.

It is a beautiful, vibrant, and ascendent Somali town impatient to come of age;











And even the vast overwhelming territory of Shilabo @ 85% so far has returned back to it's historical owners showing how even with collective punishment & ethnic displacement [both Geneva war crimes violations] brought to bear---the Arc of the Moral Universe is long, yes; but it definitely DOES bend toward justice.



The Modern History of "Balanbale" indeed.

the bah geri n makahil are some of the better cagder tribes. makahil n bah geri could get along wit everyone else. even if we did quarentined the rest of the cagders in cagder quarentine kilil to seperate the real somali kilil from cagder interior. i can only imagine how much border tribes suffered when ssdf helped mengistu. props to that bah geri nigga telling it like it is

Phase II of Balanbale Airport construction begins: The terminal