If one looks very closely at this picture beyond the half naked Gedabursi/Ciise porters , there is one dark soul far right in the back ground who is dressed like a Sudanese or a Punjabi servant , thatis Aadan Yuusuf a Dhulbahnate and the lifelong butler of the white man in the far left in the background Major H. G. C. SWAYNE ( not to be confused with his brother Swayne the commander of the expeditions against the mad mullah few years later). The two newly arrived British dignitaries are Sir Rennell Rodd of Great Britain and his wife , Rodd was heading to Abyssinia to negotiate a border treaty with Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia . The result was the Anglo-Ethiopian treaty of 1897 which transferred 56,000km/square of Somaliland territory to Ethiopia. Later this territory will be known as Hawd and Rserve Area ( the later area is inhabited by the gedabursi/Ciise) . The Hawd which was a traditional grazing land for both Isaaq and Daarood belonged to no one , it was a traditional grazing land shared by both in the short rainy seasons, once the grazing were exhausted both the Isaaq and Daarood migrated back to their traditional dry season grazing lands where wells and water was available.
The new Daarood narrative advanced by some western scholars under the spill of white guilt is that the Isaaq conquered these land recently using British support . They improvised a fanciful tale of Daarood Dervish Vs Isaaq British soldiers , where the former lost the war and as result Isaaq with the help of Great Britain conquered the poor naked Daarood.
1- The Daarood claim the Isaaq conquered the Hawd after defeating the mad mullah ! what does the Hawd has to do with that movement is puzzling , since that movement never resided in the contested Hawd or reserve area.
2- The daarood claim that the reason they were conquered by the Isaaq was due to the British arming the Isaaq , which is bull crap , the Italians armed the Majeerteen/Mareexaan Daarood , the ethiopian armed the Ogadeen Daarood and the British armed the Dhulbahnate Daarood more then the Habar Jeclo and Garxajis combined .
3- They also claim after 1941 when the Italians were defated from 1941-1948 when the British administrated the so called Ogadenia territory under BMA ( British military administration) half of Somaliland population moved into Daarood territory or so they claim using the western scholarly collaborators.
Now i will post some of the pro-western Ogaden narrative and we will examine what sources or citation they are using beside the Ogaden/Daarood bias oral history.