General Caydiid viz a viz General Bare

[Gen.Aideed]

SOMALI REFUGEES ACCUSE WARLORD OF BRUTALITY.
231 words
6 May 1992
Reuters News
English
(c) 1992 Reuters Limited

NAIROBI, May 6, Reuter - Somali refugees flooding into Kenya accuse forces loyal to Mogadishu warlord Mohammed Farah Aideed of atrocities, a U.N. relief official said on Wednesday.

Aideed's men, battling soldiers loyal to deposed president Mohammed Siad Barre who fled last week, were killing members of his tiny Marehan clan, he quoted them as saying.

"The latest arrivals alleged widespread brutality by the United Somali Congress (USC) forces under the command of Mohammed Farah Aideed," said Michael Keats, an Information official for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.

"This included beheading several of the Marehan tribesmen before they could flee," added Keats in a statement.

After he was ousted from power some 15 months ago, Siad Barre took refuge in the Marehan stronghold in the southwest of the impoverished Horn of Africa nation.

Aideed's forces chased him across the border after repulsing an attempt by his forces to retake the capital.

Some 32,000 Somalis have fled the latest fighting in the last six days. Most were armed, but surrendered their weapons to Kenyan security forces at the border post, officials said.

Siad Barre is living at a luxury hotel in Nairobi pending negotiations between the Kenyan government and other nations' officials to find him a new home.

Officials say Italy -- Somali's former colonial power -- is involved in the negotiations.

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[Gen.Aideed]

SOMALIA - April 29 - Barre Forces Routed
226 words
2 May 1992
APS DIPLOMAT RECORDER ARAB PRESS SERVICE ORGANISATION
Vol. 36, No. 18
English
Copyright 1992 Public Domain

The United Somali Congress (USC), one of Mogadishu's two warring factions, says in a radio broadcast that its forces recently repulsed attacks by Siad Barre loyalists north-west of Mogadishu. The USC, led by Gen. Aideed, captured several towns near the Kenyan border including Garbahaarey and Beled Hawo, in the territory of Barre's Marehan clan. Barre had been holed up in his hometown Garbahaarey since rebels drove him out of the capital in January 1991. Reports say he escaped to Kenya, where many of his supporters had fled. Kenyan press reports said armed men claiming to be USC fighters crossed the border into the northern Kenyan town of Mandera, stealing cars and looting shops before returning to Somali territory. One woman was killed in a clash between Kenyan soldiers and USC guerrillas, according to one Kenyan paper. Later it is confirmed that Barre fled to Kenya, and Somali interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed asked Nairobi to extradite him.

Kenyan officials said he would only stay long enough to make arrangements to seek refuge elsewhere. Mohammed said Barre should be tried for "corruption, nepotism, embezzlement of public funds and the massacre of hundreds of innocent civilians". He thanked the forces of his rival Aideed and another armed faction, the Somali Democratic Movement, for helping to defeat Barre's forces.

[Gen.Aideed]

CLAN RIVALRIES IN SOMALIA THREATEN BLOODBATH.
By Aidan Hartley
674 words
2 January 1991
Reuters News
English
(c) 1991 Reuters Limited

NAIROBI, Jan 3, Reuter - Fighting in Mogadishu threatens to degenerate into an ethnic bloodbath rooted in rivalries between Somalia's nomadic clans dating back centuries.

Government troops battling to defend the capital from a rebel invasion are drawn almost entirely from President Mohamed Siad Barre's tiny Marehan clan.

The rebels of the United Somali Congress (USC), who entered the city last month, are predominantly from the Hawiye clan of central Somalia. They have been strengthened by desertions by the government's remaining non-Marehan soldiers.

Although the government has played down the scale of the fighting, residents say hundreds of people have been killed.

Meanwhile, up to 18,000 Ogaden clan fighters of the Somali Patriotic Movement (SPM) are advancing on Mogadishu from the west and thousands of Isaak clan rebels of the Somali National Movement (SNM) surround major towns in the north.

"Each group is dealing with the other on a clan basis," said Professor Richard Greenfield, an analyst in Britain on Somali affairs. "They want a democratic government, but they can only trust their own family clans."

"My clan against the enemy, my family against the clan," begins a well-known Somali saying. It ends: "My brother and I against the family, me against my brother."

Traditionally clans formed alliances or launched blood feuds over control of watering holes and pastures, scarce resources in a harsh desert land constantly plagued by drought.

But most Somali clansmen are now armed with automatic rifles to defend their camel herds, raising the stakes of feuding to devastating levels.

Siad Barre's official line since taking power in a military coup in 1969 was to eliminate clan rivalries through a home-grown set of policies he called "scientific socialism."

Somalia's ethnic groups, unlike those in most African states, have a common language, religion and nomadic background.

But the Horn of Africa was carved up by the colonial powers last century and large areas inhabited by Somalis were not included in Somalia's boundaries at its independence in 1960.

Siad Barre gained initial popularity by campaigning for a "Greater Somalia," a policy which ended in the disastrous invasion of Ethiopia's Ogaden region in 1977-78.

Somali forces were repulsed by an Ethiopian army backed by thousands of Soviet and Cuban troops and tanks.

"There was a great feeling of disaffection after the Ogaden war," an SPM rebel told Reuters. "We had seen no economic development after years of talking about a Greater Somalia."

Greenfield said Siad Barre tried to rule by playing clans against each other but the ethnic alliances gradually began to collapse in the early 1980s.

The president concentrated power within his Marehan clan and exploited family ties to remain in office, appointing members of his family to senior positions in government and the military.

Last year, facing mounting opposition, he announced a new constitution which legalised opposition parties and set a date for elections in February. But this failed to deflect the armed uprisings against his rule.

SNM rebels invaded the north from Ethiopia in 1988, while fighting erupted in the central and southern regions after large numbers of soldiers deserted to form the SPM and USC in 1989.

Siad Barre responded by launching pogroms against members of the Isaak and Hawiye clans. The London-based human rights group Africa Watch says thousands of people have been killed.

"In times of catastrophe, natural divisions widen, but they just as easily close," said Greenfield. "Soon we could see a round-table conference between the rebels in Mogadishu."

But analysts also believe that there could be an ethnic bloodbath, directed particularly against the Marehan.

"I would be surprised if there wasn't the most almighty slaughter of Marehan after all the Hawiye have suffered," said Rakiya Omaar of Africa Watch.

One Somali who asked not to be identified said: "The Hawiye people will seek revenge against the Marehan and when there is killing in cold blood we are not better than Siad Barre himself."

[Gen.Aideed]

18000 Ogadeen clan fighters

[Col.Shabel]

War Gen.Aideed,

ceebta ka daa ilmahaan oo taarikhda wax ka aqoon.

Walle Siad Barre ilaa Kenya baa daba joognay

[quote="Gen.Aideed"]

Aideed's forces chased him across the border after repulsing an attempt by his forces to retake the capital

The USC, led by Gen. Aideed, captured several towns near the Kenyan border including Garbahaarey and Beled Hawo, in the territory of Barre's Marehan clan. Barre had been holed up in his hometown Garbahaarey since rebels drove him out of the capital in January 1991. Reports say he escaped to Kenya, where many of his supporters had fled. Kenyan press reports said armed men claiming to be USC fighters crossed the border into the northern Kenyan town of Mandera, stealing cars and looting shops before returning to Somali territory

Later it is confirmed that Barre fled to Kenya, and Somali interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed asked Nairobi to extradite him

[/quote]

Ileen Kenya waa lagu duulay...oo Mandera baa la tagay...Hadii uu Siyad Barre u qaxi laheen Nigeria, walle Gen Aideed Nairobi buu qabsan lahaa 8)

[Dr.Galbeyte.]

Dadka dhintay magacyahooda maxaa ku fashan?

Dagaaladii waa inaan ilowno .. nabada ka wada shaqeyno inadeeryaal.. stop this hate fueling BS.

[xoogSADE14]

War ninyahow maxaad isugu jawaabeeysaa?

Good luck trying to compare the father of modern Somalia to one of his generals.

[Luq_Ganane]

Karbash, adaaba sheeko isla qabatay iminka

[Sadaam_Mariixmaan]

this a good joke WALLAHI

[guhad122]

Ilaaheey Naxariistii Jano haka waraabiyo Gereraalka iyo Naftii Hure Bashiir Cali Salaad "Bashiir Bililiqo", who was the top commander of the SPM.

[Luq_Ganane]

^^

Doqonki Ogadeen. SPM anaa waso.

[guhad122]

Luuq;
I didn't know Saaxiib that you swing both ways! Shit have you been with Mukhtaar lately?

As for SPM, they liberated the entire South from Afwayne before the fall of Muqdisho to USC and Hargaisa to SNM. Walaahay I am not lying they captured Balidoogle when Afwayne's forces were still in tact.

Have you ever seen 18000 Ilka-Yars dressed in military uniform? And please don't count the Quule plantations.

[new-york23]

quule plantaion

[Luq_Ganane]

^^

Doqon Ogadeen,

Don't forget it was SNF Marehan that rooted your Adeer Omar Jess (SPM) from Kismayo. We never left. Also Col Abbas along with his units had Dhoobley burned because you robbed Marehans heading to Gedo. Today, we're on your lands, and all you can do is go on menestural bleeding cycles when you see your SADE masters issuing manifestos for your regions and "city" with impunity, while you guys stand idle. Doqonki Ogadeen, will never have anything, and will never be a force in Somali politics. You became a walad Caasi to MSB (aun) and your Marehan masters who hosted your good for nothing selves in Gedo as Itixaad. Poor Caghdeer, who had their lands taken by Marehan, Issaq, etc. and all they could do is watch. Go worry about your cousins being turned in in Hargeisa, and being better servants for President Zenawi.


Doqonki Ogadeen.

[new-york23]

quule plantaion,with boon guards