It was on the 16th of July 1989 that the world witnessed what became infamously known as the Gezeira Beach Massacre, where 47 Somalilanders including professors, medical doctors, engineers, businessmen and journalists were slaughtered like animals 20 miles south of Mogadishu, where ships from ancient Arabia once docked and where in the flatlands the nomads extracted salt from the turquoise sea water. It was here where 47 Somalilanders were dumped in the sand dunes after each one of them was shot in the head.
These people were picked up in the middle of the night by members of the Barre’s Green Beret at gun point and were put at the back of three military trucks blindfolded before they were brought to the sand dune area of the beach where, they were shot one by one in a pre-dug big shaft and then immediately dumped with heavy duty tractor.
The information that General Anjah personally supervised such massacre at the behest of General Maslah Mohamed Siyaad Barre have always been in the public domain. Col. Abdulkadir Haji Masalah, relative of General Anjah praised general Anjah at a clan gathering for his heroic action against the somalilanders hiding in Mogadishu and further suggested that he should be decorated for his timely action. Abdulkadir Masalah also continuously advocated for a strong military hand against the SNM/USC liberation forces.
LEST WE FORGOT.
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The victims of the Gezeira Massacre were:
1. Ibrahim Hassan Gelle
2. Ibrahim Abdullahi Dirie
3. Mohamed Issmial Ahmed
4. Yusuf Mohamed Handulle
5. Saeed Moahmed Mumin
6. Mussa Abdi Gas
7. Hussein Ali Aden
8. Saeed Nur Mussa
9. Abdirahman Mohamed Bihi
10. Abdiwahab farah ahmed
11. abditfatah ahmed jiir
12. matan abdi Habashi
13. Mohamed moahmed abdi
14. Ali Mohamed abdi
15. Hassan Aw Nur Burad
16. Abdi moahmed abdi
17. Ahmed yassin omar Jama
18. Mohamed abdi hassan
19. ibrahim hassan ege
20. Abdi Mohamed duad
21. hassan abdi muhamed
22. ali Mohamed dirie
23. jama Mohamed abdi
24. abdi osman dubad
25. hussen omer hussien
26. Mohamed musa Mohamed
27. Ahmed hassan elmi dheereye
28. Yusuf abdillahi robelh
29. Mohamed bashe abdulahi
30. abdirahman ahmed dhumbil
31. Hussein muhamed farah
32. mohamoud ba’adle
33. jama aden
34. abdirahman Mohamed osman
35. abdi barre osman
36. barre osman abdi
37. Abdirizaq aydid Mohamed
38. Khadar Mohamed ahmed
39. Hussein osman jama
40. bihi ibrahim ahmed
41. hassan guure Abdi
42. hassan guure abdi
43. khgadare nur jama
44. ahmed yusuf ibrahim
45. farah ismail awale
46. dayib abdi burale
47. ali aw muhamed Mohamed
Allahu naxariisto. Amiin.
