X.Playa wrote: Sat Feb 18, 2017 11:18 pm
As though one can call Afweyne Bares dictatorship a governmet. A government that supposedly was anti tribalism while it had a daily 12 page NSS briefing for Daarood generals. On every day the NSS delivered a 12 page clan news to Afweyne, nuur bidaar & co. It was open tribalism reer hebel did this and reer hebel said this and the mission of destroying reer hebel went smoothly.
At least in the 1960s the government however corrupt never practiced the diabolical Afweyne tribalism.
Nuur Bidaar (AUN) was my actual uncle and served his nation with distinction.
Unfortunately the government in later years did have negatives, no objective person can deny that. However that was after 1980 when major mistakes were made that unfortunately did contribute to the civil war.
The point is WHEN Barre came to power, his government really did save a country on the sick bed. Imagine for 10 years and dozens of guddi they couldn't even decide which orthography to use due to the stifling bureacracy and malaise of the heavily politically divided country.
With the assassination of the President and political squabbling the CIA observes the country is heavily tribalistic, armed, and the army was tribally divided and at risk of serious instability. The assessment they gave on October 21, 1969 is the same one that could have been given to Somalia in 1990.
And yet we havr people like you and other revisionists who would have us believe things were rosy and Siad Barre introduced tribalism.
Siad Barre took over a country of hyenas and just as it descended into a country of hyenas in 1991.