superlander wrote:^ xaasidnimo my friend since a recognized somaliland is no threat to u guys and we can avoid having an eritrea/ethiopia grudge style relationship
Ethiopia Eritrea relations is more complex than Somalia and Somaliland. Eritreans had a good relations with the Amhara kings from 1100 until Imam Axmed guray invaded highland Ethiopia in the 16 century. And they had their own kingdom. When the Eritrean King was defeated by the Amhara King . The Amhara king appointed Tigrayan nobles to Eritrea and they subjugated the Eritreans though the Tigrigna speakers in eritrea and Ethiopia speak the same language but tribally they hate each other. until the Italians came the Eritreans were ruled by Tigrayan lords for centuries. basically Italian colonialism freed the Eritreans from tigrayan rule. So Eritreans hate Tigrayens for their history before italian colonialism and they hate amharas for haile Selassie and Mengistu.
Somalia and Somaliland relations is different we were never one country before 1960 before 1960 , the isaaq had a long wars with the daaroods never with the hawiyes. Whether its in Ethiopia or in nugaal region.So there is huge distrust between isaaq and darood , and very deep seated hatred . We got to know the hawiyes really well with the Union and they were very friendly although they never wanted to share power with us in the early 60s. Isaaq and the habrgedir and sacad were our allies before colonialism. We were new to the Hawiye politics we didn't understand their political culture the darood understood them particularly majeerteen, we never understood their politics because we did not know them that well. Although there were no bad blood between hawiye and isaaq ever. The hawiye pilots refused to bomb hargeysa when afweyne ordered to fight against isaaq. The only issue with hawiye is they are fixated with the Somalinimo for us Somalinimo means Somalidhimo . Union destroyed both SL and Somalia. During the xabashi invasion of Mogadishu, many isaaq turned into terrorsts and joined the muqawaamo to fight against the xabashis. And Hawiyes refugees were welcomed with open arms in Somaliland. So there is no bad blood or animosity between us. Only a political difference on how we view the future of the region
Do not worry about them at all we have them under our control. even the last 10 % we loosely control vassal state When ssc made peace with the SL government , everything that buhoodle consumes comes from berbera clothes food oil everything. But what do you get from a country with in a country some where down the line whether its now or in a few years time we must negotiate on an official separation. Unless there is something Mogadishu wants from Somaliland but i doubt this is the reason why it took so long 21 years to talk , because there was no govt in Somalia.
