All the other incidents that grant has mentioned are tame by african standards so this is clearly not what is behind his anti-somaliland stand.
but this goes even further than that. Why hold somaliland to an even higher standard?
The repeated use of the term triangle that was picked up here on Snet and other blogs makes this a personal vendetta instead of disagreement of political views.
The use of the term insinuates that Sool and Sanaag and are not settled by issaq, the former is our ancestral land and both are the home of a significant part of the isaaq population.
Whats even worrying is his repeated mention of caynaba? whats his problem with caynaba?
is he a supporter of dhulbahante irredentism? the will for the return of territories lost in several decades ago which are now as solidly habar jeclo as taleex is dhulos.
and one more thing.
you are a materialist westerner and would find this difficult to understand but i will give you a hint.My understanding is that the country is extremely poor and that unemployment is on the order of 70%. I do not equate those conditions with happiness.
its 2 things that are contributing to happiness islam and freedom from oppression.
The people in somaliland do not have warlords lording it over them, nor do they have alshabab, government influence or reach is tenuous at
best they are free basically, and they have Islam.
any muslim country when in peace will hit the scales in any happiness survey.
If the south was free from alshabab, even with no government or the limited one they have today they would be happy,
despite the grinding poverty.
And lastly "SNM" the glorious SNM was disbanded in 1991 it served its purpose it does not exist.
mentioning SNM is another sign of choosing sides in this conflict.
Your beloved SSC/Khutomo are doomed, this is because we learnt the lessons from our own history.
If the Siad regime used the same methods as us we would still be part of somalia and siad would have died to be succeeded by his son like bashar assad.
The SNM was formed in 1981 but the people did not get on board till the mid 80's why?
most people want to live their lives and avoid conflict,
the siad government made it impossible not to wholeheartedly revolt by mass arrests, mass executions/dissapearances and mass rapes.
confiscation of property all these are documented.
Even heavy handed responses to SNM guerilla attacks also added to this when civilian are collateral damage.
so very little collateral damage and civillian attacks, SL army preventing isaaq nomads from retaliation and launching a clan war
deliberatly isolating isaaq soldiers from civilians by basing them outside civllian areas.
Khatomu is now broke, they dont have enough to sustain themselves, they will not get funding from xamar or puntland.
Their millitia are melting away, there is not enough public outrage to sustain them, and we will not save them by causing heavy casualties and we will prevent any clashes with isaaq nomads. at the same time we will continue to offer dialogue and inducements.
The only thing in the foreseeable future that will save khatuumo is if we kill allot of them'
Allaw Dhawr 