let us exchange refugee stories!

[Armstrong]

And then what? Keep going take us to utanga.

[Cumar-Labasuul]

yes we walked the way

[JolieFille]

DR-YALAXOOW"]it was oktoobar 1990 my uncel and his family was planning to move cairo egypt, my uncel was working in that time Arab leage( jaamacada carabta) it was the start of 1990 my uncle gott top job in Arab leage headquarter in cairo.
My father convinced my uncel that i dr yalaxoow as 16 years old in that time should fellow my adeer to cairo for studying.

ME and my uncels family left Somalia 9 oktoobar 1991 at mogadishu airport newly bought airplane of Somali airlens. it was middle of night. the plane left mogadishu att 12 Am night. in early morning we landed ciaro.

i remember it was whole new world for me. cairo we lived place called caguuuza near Somali ambassador office.
when civil war started i was in cairo chilling relaxing. unlike my family scaped from mogadishu to balcad when worst fighting was going on from 26 dicembar 1990 to 26 feberaayo 1991 when siyaad bare left mogadishu.


the middle of 1991 i gott fake swedhish passport and mu uncel paid 500 dollar which was big money in that time to immigration officals of cairo airport. friday may 1991 i come stockholm.



since then now 20 years im in sweden.

Very interisting, how did you feel about leaving Somalia? happy? you are lucky that you left Somalia before the war.... did any of you familiy get killed in the war? fake passport you live in Sweden forstår du hvad jeg siger?

[JolieFille]

And then what? Keep going take us to utanga.

life in Utanga was terrible and nice at the same time.

[JolieFille]

yes we walked the way

How many days did it take? did you get attacked by troops while walking?

[DR-YALAXOOW]

joliefille actually thats amazing. i left before the civil war. my childhood friends i use to play football 80% of them are death. but my best friend which was whit me the night u left xamar oktoobar 1990 in the airport of mogadishu alxamdulilaah hes still well and alive and still in mogadishu.


so walaahi i did not even wanted to go cairo, in that time. my father forced me to go whit my uncel inorder to study cairo, and living my uncle. i was forced to go whit him. now i than to allah i fellowed my uncel 1990.

[JolieFille]

DR-YALAXOOW"]joliefille actually thats amazing. i left before the civil war. my childhood friends i use to play football 80% of them are death. but my best friend which was whit me the night u left xamar oktoobar 1990 in the airport of mogadishu alxamdulilaah hes still well and alive and still in mogadishu.


so walaahi i did not even wanted to go cairo, in that time. my father forced me to go whit my uncel inorder to study cairo, and living my uncle. i was forced to go whit him. now i than to allah i fellowed my uncel 1990.


Sad to hear, the great people who was our friends and Neighbours in the 80s mogadishu is dead or suffering in Somalia


Masallah, thanks to Allah we are still alive.

[Mureedi]

I don't remember much of what was happening at the time but I used to hear my dad talking about the USC, after they looted everything from him, they would come to our house everytime they kill someone in the neighborhood and ask my dad to bury the body. dad duugow leen Xamar ooga soo roori aas yiri. We came to Marka and proceeded to Kismaayo where we took a boat and landed in Mombasa. My dad and some other men established a camp seperate from Utange called banaadiri. apart from the dhuudhi, it was ok and life was good. Then in 1995, the US accepted all Banaadiri people as vulnerable minority and offered a mass resettlement to the USA.

[Cumar-Labasuul]

yes we walked the way

How many days did it take? did you get attacked by troops while walking?

a long time

[JolieFille]

I don't remember much of what was happening at the time but I used to hear my dad talking about the USC, after they looted everything from him, they would come to our house everytime they kill someone in the neighborhood and ask my dad to bury the body. dad duugow leen Xamar ooga soo roori aas yiri. We came to Marka and proceeded to Kismaayo where we took a boat and landed in Mombasa. My dad and some other men established a camp seperate from Utange called banaadiri. apart from the dhuudhi, it was ok and life was good. Then in 1995, the US accepted all Banaadiri people as vulnerable minority and offered a mass resettlement to the USA.

why not live in Utanga with the rest of the somalis?

[DR-YALAXOOW]

meelaha ay qabiilada soomaalida xerooyinka qaxootiga ka galeen!!

isaaq= xarshin dulcad from 1988 to 1991
Darood= Utaanga dhadhaab= 1991 to 1998
hawiye= outskirts of mogadishu, and koonfurta somalia
Eelay= they are refugees in every where mogadishu, boosaaso, lascanood ,hargeysa, they are refugees in every where.

marka qabiilada soomaaliya waxaa ugu horeeyey qaxootinimo isku dhiiba waa OGAADEENS, refugee pioneers, 1943KII ayey interviewga qaxootinimada lagu aqbalo formkeeda buuxin jireen.

[JolieFille]

[quote="Cumar-Labasuul"][

How many days did it take? did you get attacked by troops while walkinga long time

Wallahi somalis are un-patriotic, while people were suffering in Northern Somalia ( 1988) we were wacthing movies and having fun at the beach in Mogadishu.... I remember many people from nort coming into Mogadishu in 1988-89.... they were very angry.... today Hargeysa is in peace while reer mogadishu is living as refugees in nothern towns.

[JolieFille]

meelaha ay qabiilada soomaalida xerooyinka qaxootiga ka galeen!!

isaaq= xarshin dulcad from 1988 to 1991
Darood= Utaanga dhadhaab= 1991 to 1998
hawiye= outskirts of mogadishu, and koonfurta somalia
Eelay= they are refugees in every where mogadishu, boosaaso, lascanood ,hargeysa, they are refugees in every where.

marka qabiilada soomaaliya waxaa ugu horeeyey qaxootinimo isku dhiiba waa OGAADEENS, refugee pioneers, 1943KII ayey interviewga qaxootinimada lagu aqbalo formkeeda buuxin jireen.

you just know peoples qabil by their stories Somaliweyn will get peace and unity and Ogadenia will live in freedoom and peace under the blue flag

[Cumar-Labasuul]

meelaha ay qabiilada soomaalida xerooyinka qaxootiga ka galeen!!

isaaq= xarshin dulcad from 1988 to 1991
Darood= Utaanga dhadhaab= 1991 to 1998
hawiye= outskirts of mogadishu, and koonfurta somalia
Eelay= they are refugees in every where mogadishu, boosaaso, lascanood ,hargeysa, they are refugees in every where.

marka qabiilada soomaaliya waxaa ugu horeeyey qaxootinimo isku dhiiba waa OGAADEENS, refugee pioneers, 1943KII ayey interviewga qaxootinimada lagu aqbalo formkeeda buuxin jireen.

warya beenta dhaaf hawiye ma iyaga qaxay soodinkii muqdisho la wareegay 1991

listka waxa ka ilowday cad-cad iyo bantu iyo .5ka kale

[Armstrong]

Were the living conditions in utanga worse than those of banadiri? And why dhudhi, did the UNHCR not supply shoes?