political greed and betrayal? who's to be blamed? the somali people or specific politicians (regardless of what tribe they belong to)?Meyle wrote:Re-read my post. It was political greed and the betrayal that lead to the attempted coup in 1961. That started the aspirations of becoming a seperate state. If the generals that lead that coup were successful, Somaliland would've been a seperate country by 1961 because there's no official documents regarding the unification process however the coup failed.
As my previous post states the neoptism and corruption after 1977-78 war and MSB targetting Isaaq businessmen specifically lead to dissatisfaction and once again the aspirations of becoming a seperate state lead to the establishment of SNM.
you mention snm's goal being the creation of a separate state, but that was never the goal, you know it and everyone knows it. they were fighting against siyad barre's regime and not against somalia.

