Why Somalis were feared during Colonial rule

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- As part of the Italian colonial military, almost 4000 Eritrean Askaris were constantly kept in Libya, 800 in Somalia, 6606 Eritreans fought in Adwa against Ethiopia.

- In all the Italian African wars, Eritreans were used as gun fodder and considered as expendable animals.

-During the 1935 to 1936 war with Ethiopia, the Italians forced their Eritrean troops to bury dead Italians but not their own dead brothers.

-As punishment for any offence, the Italians were lashing their Eritrean troops any number up to 150 lashes. And after the lashing, the lashed person had to salute the Italian who supervised the lashing.

-The Eritrean Asker (means servant in Turkish) had to cook his food and to walk bare-footed unlike his Somali comrade, who had shoes, who was not lashed for any offence and who got cooked food. This because, the first Somali who was lashed by the Italians, had killed the Italian who supervised the lashing.

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[PrinceOfDarwiishLand]

For 21 years, my great-grandparents fought against the Italians, British, and Ethiopia...COMBINED. They died and lost their wealth for the liberation and unity of the SOMALI PEOPLE.

AND...today, a small minority of secessionists, who have caused war crimes want to throw the entire Darwiish ideology and CAUSE out of the window....caqli yara.

[Advo]

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[Coeus]

For 21 years, my great-grandparents fought against the Italians, British, and Ethiopia...COMBINED. They died and lost their wealth for the liberation and unity of the SOMALI PEOPLE.

AND...today, a small minority of secessionists, who have caused war crimes want to throw the entire Darwiish ideology and CAUSE out of the window....caqli yara.

[Enemy_Of_Mad_Mullah]

thats what I like about our ancestors, no fear of anyone and if the gaal tried anything they killed him point blank wallahi they were rageedi may Allah have mercy on their souls

[Coeus]

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Its from the book "The collusion on Eritrea" by Bocresion Haile

[Executive]

thats what I like about our ancestors, no fear of anyone and if the gaal tried anything they killed him point blank wallahi they were rageedi may Allah have mercy on their souls

Lol @ your nick and comment

the irony

[PrinceOfDarwiishLand]

thats what I like about our ancestors, no fear of anyone and if the gaal tried anything they killed him point blank wallahi they were rageedi may Allah have mercy on their souls

Lol @ your nick and comment

the irony

Ala ma ana garan

Ragaan Isaaq are created from IRONY. It runs in their blood !

[Enemy_Of_Mad_Mullah]

thats what I like about our ancestors, no fear of anyone and if the gaal tried anything they killed him point blank wallahi they were rageedi may Allah have mercy on their souls

Lol @ your nick and comment

the irony

shut it this was made during the days of Jahiliyah....btw did the he claim to be the mahdi?

[Garaad_LQ]

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Its from the book "The collusion on Eritrea" by Bocresion Haile

yeah right .





p.s Asker means soldier like the Somali askari , caskari

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link?

Its from the book "The collusion on Eritrea" by Bocresion Haile

yeah right .

Huh:?

[BadrSomal]

thats what I like about our ancestors, no fear of anyone and if the gaal tried anything they killed him point blank wallahi they were rageedi may Allah have mercy on their souls

Lol @ your nick and comment

the irony

shut it this was made during the days of Jahiliyah....btw did the he claim to be the mahdi?

No that was our Sudanese cousin.

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Askar meant soldier not servant. But the Eritrean writer is right, from Gerald Hanley's book Life and Death


"A Somali always felt himself to be twice as good as any white man, or
any other kind of man at all, and still does, even when he is wrong.
Islam does wonders for the self respect of non-white people and
Christianity is right to worry about the spread of Islam in Africa, and
must honestly face the question of why it has happened - "


"Of all the desiccated, bitter, cruel, sunbeaten wildernesses which
starve and thirst beyond the edges of Africa's luscious, jungled centre,
there cannot be one more Christless than the one which begins at the
northern foot of Mount Kenya and stretches to the foothills of Abyssinia,
and from there to the dried-out glittering tip of Cape Gardafui where the
hot karif winds blow in from where the long sharks race under the thin
blue skin of the ocean. You can never think of those wildernesses without
thinking of daggers and spears, rolling fierce eyes under mops of dusty
black crinkly hair, of mad stubborn camels, rocks too hot to touch, and
blood feuds whose origins cannot be remembered, only honoured in the
stabbing. But of all the races of Africa there cannot be one better to
live among than the most difficult, the proudest, the bravest, the
vainest, the most merciless, the friendliest; the Somalis."

"I knew an Italian priest who had spent over thirty years among the
Somalis and he made two converts, and it amazed me that he got even those
two. The Prophet has no more fervent, and ignorant, followers, but that
is not their fault that they are ignorant.Their natural intelligence is
second to none and when the education factories start work among them
they should surprise Africa, and themselves."


"I never saw a Somali who showed any fear of death, which, impressive
though it sounds, carries within it the chill of pitilessness and
ferocity as well. If you have no fear of death you have none for anybody
else's either, but that fearlessness has always been essential to the
Somalis who have had to try and survive hunger, disease and thirst while
prepared to fight and die against their enemies, their fellow Somalis for
pleasure in the blood feud, or the Ethiopians who would like to rule
them, or the white men who got in the way for a while."

"Everytime a Somali got whipped, an Italian soldier was killed"

"Wandering in The Shag (desert) were Somalis with some of the sharpest
intelligences in the continent, nomads who had been forced into being
parasites of the camel, for centuries, and could anyone ever find a way
of using all that courage and intelligence?"

"There is no one alive as tough as the Somali nomad. No one.
An askari wounded in a fight in the Haud country walked 14 miles holding
his guts in his hand, was sewn up and lived to soldier again. And the
women are as spiritually strong as their men."

"....You get into that way of thinking in the Somali waste. You think
that way because the Somalis bitterly resent the white man, and struggle
continually, and admirably, by lies and intrigue, to fight off his
influence which spells the end of their peculiar world. You cannot beat
them. They have no inferiority complexes, no wide-eyed worship of the
white man's ways, and no fear of him, of his guns or of his official
anger. They are a race to be admired, if hard to love."

[kadarre]

Somalis the most boastfull people in the world.