Dude I never said there could not have been Harti in Kismaayo before Dabo-dheer. The fact is Kismaayo was never considered a big city until recent times especially then it was not even a village. Serinley was bigger then Kismaayo and today Serinley is a village off Baardheere that is used as a Mareexaan military training post along with Bulsho.
Kismaayo ONLY become big in the 70's when the U.S became interested in it during the cold war as a base and the government sought to take advantage and wanted to populate it because of that.
As an old reer Ahmed man told me, Marehan never thought of trying to live in Kismaayo after capturin it because the area around is too densely forested to be living in real safety. That's why they continued up the river until they came to the still green but more open fields of Gedo and what is today northern Jubbada Hoose.
Earlier Harti expulsion was due to two reasons.
1. The Sayd Mohammed Abdulle Hassan thing when he attacked the mjs and threw 300 off eyl. Shoot thats when the runs to Beledweyne and like your family ran to Bulo-burto and other areas in south occured.
another was
2. When you gave yourself up the italians and the colonials had a habit of transplanting ppl loyal to them to other places. thats how you were also brought from the coast.
Why do you think you ONLY live in a little part of Kismayo which is a coastal city.
WITH THAT SAID, those Mj's altogether were not more then 250 people ALLTOGETHER.
Dude look at your OWN information:
"The Hertis were so tied to the SMALL district around Kismayu, Yonte, and Kurkumez, that they never DARE rebel government as a tribe"
You were less then 250 [TWO HUNDRED FIFTY PEOPLE] altogether so god knows how you guys shared the percentage.
Whereas Mareexaan were:
On the outbreak of war there were three battalions in the two British Protectorates of Uganda and East Africa[20], who together made up seventeen companies. Of the seventeen "Six were engaged in operations against the MAREHAN people on the Juba river, several others were preparing to march against the Tukana, and one was in Zanzibar"
http://henleycol.ac.uk/henleycollege/co ... /essay.htmMa dadkaas baa isku barbar dhigmo? One that lived in 2 villages (REMEMBER villages even today in 2007 dont number more then 25 ppl max) and people foreign powers were using half-dozen company regiments against???
This going back to our earlier contention, how could you even DARE to have been the first to come there and free anything
Wallahi it is mystifying how you could even DARE to claim that.
Dont bring me bs that is not here nor there. I brought you EXACT information WHO conquered Kismaayo first then moved up and conquered ALL THE WAY TO SOUTHERN Ethiopia.
Over 98% of the Harti that claim Kismaayo were brought by Maj Gen. Jaale Mohammed Siyaad barre when he saw the Dabo-dheer drought and the opportunity presented to him around Kismaayo area by the Americans and EVEN you're own Majeerteen websites proof it.
I have never been to Jstor but best believe I will hit that place real soon just as soon as the sign in is brought to me.
