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Basra- wrote:Monk aka Voltage

I think u r vehemently against somaliland because, u think they will deshrine the baaare legacy.

The_Emperior5 wrote:Monk i want to hear your Opinion why are you agains SL recognition iska da maakhanida iyo waxaso hadhow baad u kha khayiri eh

Monk-of-Mogadishu wrote:Basra, I don't care about Siad Barre, I'm not for him or even against Somaliland independence. If Somaliland breaks away with all PRO-Somaliland regions I will support it, but they know that they live in a shit hole desert with no resources so they want to force people in Borama and Lascanood to break away with them so they can have farms and minerals.

Like I said, if Somaliland breaks away with Togdheer and Waqoyi Galbeed everyone would support and no one would care for them, but they are trying to break away with regions and populations that are respected by Somalia (reer Sool & reer Awdal).

AsadSL wrote:Somaliland has moved on. Somaliland Has awdal sool Sannag Togdeer W.Galbeed currently in its control and it will leave the union officially in its hands.

Goljano Lion wrote:Biiftaax
If that is the case, then why you guys are crying and whining like sissified boys every day on Snet forum Somaliand ma gu-i karto, anyway you have a right to your opinions although we , Somalilanders don’t give a phoc about your opnions beacuse action speaks louder than words, the question is what you gonna do about it bifbaaf boi

Voltage wrote:

Basra- wrote:





No Vo dear, i refuse your well planned point. Had the somaliland separated in the last few years, meaning after the al shabaab coming to 'existance', then i would have said yes---khat must have a perverse reason to the separation. But no--somaliland separated long time ago--during the high ruling days of the moryaans--aideed and co---today the moryaans are a figment of somalia historical imagination. After them came the tfg, then abdulaahi yusuf, and then al shabaab, then the pirates, then the ethiopians, and finally the al shabaab again. While somaliland has consistently remained---S.o.m.a.l.i.l.a.n.d


Ironically---despite the changes of power southern somalia went through--with all the colorful names ---none of them had a name of 'somali' attached to them. Only somaliland---has a name remotely close to somalia--who is more patriotic of somalia do ya think?

I am afraid you are mistaken Lady Basra. SNM rebellion began in 1982 when Siad Barre sought to tax Khat. During that time the Isaaq in the north comprised most of the Somali migrants in the Gulf Arabia but when they came back to Somalia, would use most of the money on Khat...essentially denying the government revenue while chanelling all the productivity of the Somali citizens there straight into Ethiopia's economy (khat grew in Ethiopia and was taxed by the Ethiopian government) supporting it. Abdiwahab's uncle who was Finance Minister at that time, Abdullahi Addow, advised Siad to start taxing Khat and when he did, the Khat barons grew incensed. When Siad Barre stopped by Hargeisa after returning from a meeting in Djibouti with Aptidoon, the khat barons had little children stone the president's envoy which led to reactionary guards opening fire. This was the beginning of the SNM rebellion and essentially of post-colonial Somaliland.

You can read about this too in Rukia Oomaar's Human Rights Watch book A Government at War its Own People which examined the SNM rebellion and the Somali State's reaction. Rukia Oomaar is Habar Awal, Isaaq and the sister of Rage Oomaar.