qabiils with presidents

[zackabdul]

Marehan have a problem admitting MSB's government was the worst government we had so far. He was a baboon who did a better job being a body guard.

Btw, the quote I had was from http://countrystudies.us/.

[Ican]

The difference between sixties government and Barre regime is that the sixties adminstration did not try to hide the tribal factor in Somalia, but worked on ways to include every tribe. At the end of the day their failures were judged and criticized and they could be replaced by another government chosen by the people, a luxury lost when the Barre regime took over.

S.Y.L was always equally representative of all the clans, if their was Darood president, the priemier was either hawiye or isaaq case in point Shermarke(aun) and Egal(aun) and Vice versa. Somalia was experimenting with democracy and there was bound to be mistakes, we certainly did not need a military coup.

Here is what a I.M lewis article on the 1969 coup, written in 1972

"The Supreme Revolutionary Council's obsessive preoccupation with
treachery and betrayal, and its growing reliance on harsh repressive
sanctions, inevitably suggest that its leaders no longer enjoy the public
confidence which they claimed when they seized power in October
1969. The strident, almost hysterical tone of the Leader's repeated
denunciation of 'tribalism', which he seeks to link with colonialism
and sinister 'neo-colonial plots', is also a measure of the frustration and
desperation which those who seek to achieve dramatic changesin the socioeconomic
conditions of the country must feel when they consider the glaring
discrepancy between their aims and what has actually been achieved.
Previous civilian governments also sought to replace poverty by
prosperity, and to eradicate 'tribalism' and other sources of nepotism
and injustice. These ambitions and slogans are not new; and dissatisfaction
with the previous civilian leaders centred not on their aims, but
on their failure to implement them effectively and sincerely."

And this was supposedly the golden years of the Barre regime.

[zackabdul]

If Siyad Barre hadn't come along, we would've had elections and civilian rule in Somalia would've continued.