1982, the year where the Somali National Emergecy was decree

[Warsame101]

The decree came after a large forces of Ethiopian troops supported by the SSDF occupied Balanballe and Galdogob and massacred its citizens. If the SNA didn't repulse them, we would have been occupied.

The SNA made a suprise attack and killed thousands of Ethiopian troops and re-captured the Somali regions.



Reuters 16 August 1982:

//MOGADISHU - Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre declared an emergency yesterday in the regions along the Somali-Ethiopian border, where fighting has been going on for six weeks.

An official announcement said the emergency was declared ''as a result of the naked Ethiopian land and air attack against Somalia.''

The opposition Somali Salvation Democratic Front, operating from Ethiopia with support from the Ethiopian Government, said it alone was responsible for the attack. Ethiopia has denied any involvement, but diplomats in the Somali capital have put its forces in the fighting at between 3,000 and 10,000 men.

The emergency decree empowers the authorities to requisition vehicles and obliges all able-bodied Somalis to help defend the country if called on.

It was issued after two days of heavy fighting around the border towns of Galdogob and Balambale, where the Defence Ministry said Somali forces had made a surprise attack on Ethiopian forces. Both sides have reported heavy casualties.

A local reporter said Somali troops overran a large Ethiopian military position on Thursday and Friday. He quoted army officers as saying the Ethiopians had been planning a thrust into Balembale and Galdogob, but were driven back into Ethiopia. //


Another source:
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[DawladSade]

my grandma told me the xabashi bombed Caabudwaaq and alot of Mareexaans were screaming "awoowe diiniyo na badbaadi"

my grandma was like i slapped one hysterical woman senseless and asked her what diini would do for her, eventually mareexaanki dhan buurta burgeesoole bay u carareen but then Col Shire Maxamed Siyaad and Col Shanfool (habar yoonis) knocked the xabashi backward

[Warsame101]

, damn! "awoowe diiniyo na badbaadi?"

//BBC Monitoring
26 May 1984
On 24th May Mogadishu radio reported a Somali Defence Ministry announcement that the Abudwaq district in Ghel Gudut region had been attacked by a MiG-21 and a MiG-23 from Ethiopia that morning.//


It almost bombed Gaalkaacyo.

//13 July 1982
New York Times

MOGADISHU, Somalia, July 12 -- Ethiopian troops and warplanes attacked Somali positions on two fronts today, prompting an urgent Somali appeal for aid in halting an 11-day-old Ethiopian advance, the Somali press agency reported.

Thousands of Somalis marched here in the capital shouting anti-Ethiopian slogans, the press agency said.

Other demonstrations were reported throughout Somalia.

Ethiopian units supported by Soviet-built MIG fighter jets hit the Ogaden border village of Ballanbale, 250 miles northwest of Mogadishu, and Galdogob, 220 miles north of Ballanbale on the Ethiopian-Somali border, the press agency said.

Somalia said Sunday that it shot down an Ethiopian MIG during a bombing attack on Galciao, the capital of Madug Province, situated 60 miles inside Somalia.

The fighting between the two countries that occupy the Horn of Africa, at the entrance to the Red Sea, erupted July 1 with an Ethiopian air attack on Somali border troops. //


It almost attacked Berbera but was repelled:

//29 April 1983
MOGADISHU (Reuter) - Somalia said its air defence units repulsed an attack against the northern port of Berbera yesterday morning by Ethiopian Air Force MIG-23 planes.

A statement by the official Sonna News Agency quoted military sources as saying the attacking planes caused no damage.

Berbera, situated on the Gulf of Aden, was once a major Soviet naval station and its facilities have been used increasingly by the U.S. Navy since the end of an alliance between Somalia and the Soviet Union in 1977.

No further details were available.

For more than a month Somalia and Ethiopia have been trading accusations that one was preparing to invade the other.

They fought a full-scale war over Ethiopia's ethnically Somali Ogaden Desert in 1977-1978, and fighting has since flared periodically. Clashes between patrols in the desert are said by Somali authorities to take place regularly.

Somalia also says Ethiopian aircraft often fly intimidation or reconnaissance missions over the border region.

Yesterday's report was the first mention of Ethiopian aircraft flying so deep into Somalia for a long time.

The report did not give details of the attack on the port, where a small U.S. Navy construction unit was scheduled to set up quarters in the near future.

Somalia has agreed to have the United States improve Berbera's facilities and use them for its Indian Ocean fleet. U.S.-Somali manoeuvres held there several months ago were denounced by Ethiopia as aggressive moves. //

[DawladSade]

ppl think mareexaan had an easy life but ballo waan soo aragnay, my grandma told me long ago the bombs would fall but ilaahay amarkiis most of the impact would be taken by the deep carro gaduud of caabudwaaq, dadkaas waa iska suufi so they though "awoowe diini" was blessing them

[Luq_Ganane]

Backstabbing Dhabayacos. What else is new.