was Siyad Barre Ethiopian or Somali?

[metamorphosis]

Recently, somalis from proper somalia have redefined what it means to be somali. It used to be that we didn't recognize colonial borders, and you were somali as long as you were ethnically somali(born to somali parents), but that has changed now. Especially since jLand has become a state, Ahmed madoobe has come under a lot of fire, with many asking for his head and deportation because they claim he is from the ogaden, even though he was born in gaalkacayo. Which party is right/wrong? MSB is all we know was born in the ogaden, but was the president of somalia for 2 decades. In the current climate, would he become a president given that he was born outside of proper somalia? If you consider him to be an Ethiopian, doesn't that mean we had an Ethiopian as a president? Could one even make the argument that he sabotaged somalia on purpose to secure Ethiopian interests? I mean, after all he did commit pretty atrocious crimes against many somali tribes.

Discuss.

fyi I consider him to be an Ethiopian, not somali.

[Smile-LiKe-SuN-RiSE]

[Khalid Ali]

He is an Ethiopian by nationality but somali by ethnicity. But afweyne waged war on Ethiopia. It depends really Tarzan former mayor of Mogadishu if we go and play that route than allot of people don't qualify for leadership in Somalia Siyad barre I believe was the offspring of goita ibn theodorus hiraabo a habasha bloke from the highland.siyad barre lied about his place of birth and was born in Italian Somalia

[barbarossa]

OP, stop using the uunka aakhiro for the purposes of scoring petty fadhukudirir points.

[Adali]

Damn the dumb slave stooped low to insult the dead

[Advo]

You cannot be Ethiopian and Somali at the same time, u gotta give one up. Seeing as how MSB AUN sent millions of them akhira, I reckon he prefers to be Somali.

I don’t know about ahmed madoobe tho, does anyone know if he considers himself Somali on a personal level?