Tanker wrote:Jugjugwacwac
The man in your avatar is known as a man who betrayed his country and people by joining the Ethiopians
I'm aware that this is how many view his legacy, but that only works if one equates the Siyaad Barre regime with Somalia as a country. To rebel against ones government isn't tantamount to betraying ones country. Also you need to be more precise, the SNM didn't join the Ethiopians, but benifited from a mutually beneficial arrangement in which the rebels would overthrow Barre and the Ethiopians would have the Somalis turn their guns on each other instead of on them. The Ethiopian interests ofcourse were implicit and went unstated. I personally believe this was a terrible mistake on the part of the SNM and other contemporaneous clan-based rebel groups. Cabdullahi Yusuf of the SSDF, Cabdiraxman Tuur/Siilaanyo of the SNM, Cumar Jees of the SPM and Caydiid of the USC, none of them intended to betray their country, but in the end this didnt matter since their actions led to a irrevocably weak and fragmented Somalia with Ethiopia as it's overlord. Also, Tanker, don't forget that Tuur died as an opponent of secession, though I'm certain he would've changed his position if he lived long enough for the cynicism and deep frustration to set in, as it did with the Professor Ahmed Samatar. .
