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10:55 - 33:18 or more than 2/3 of his program was devoted to the events concerning Marehan and Liyu Police in the completely Marehan town of Fadhigaradle in Shilabo of Korahe district of Somali Region, Ethiopia;



Starting 24:57, right after making the observation that everyone else including his own group have long 'given in' and capitulated 'except' for Marehan who have refused to accept the binary choice of being second-class citizens or being ethnically cleansed---Macalinka has a surreal moment where he spaces out with a sudden epiphany:--

" IT IS GENOCIDE. MAREHAN HAS BEEN RESISTING 'GENOCIDE' FOR SO LONG!"




For 88 years and counting in fact starting exactly February 2, 1935 when Marehan, the 'clan' was claimed by Italy; but Shilabo, their clan "territory" (in which even today Marehan is the overwhelming majority of the territory) was claimed by Ethiopia.

It has been 88 years of ongoing, unyielding, unceasing attempt at "ethnic cleansing" under all political dispensations in Ethiopia since; from feudal to Marxist to Ethnic federalism and the current dispensation which has not yet legally reversed the [il]-legal underpinnings of the erasure which began 88 years ago.

The Italo-Abyssinian Treaty of 1908 and the significance of Merehan Farise:

Some of the last references to the erased settlement of "Marehan Fariisay/Fadhiistay" ("Marehan Junction") before the post-modern period are in these maps before 1912.

1. "Merehan Farese"
   
   
   • High resolution image of the map here;
     
     
2. "Marehan Farese"
   
   
   • High Resolution;
     
     

That these are the last maps to reference "Marehan Farese" is not a coincidence. It needs a brief historical explanation.


Between the two maps (1906-1912) took place the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of May 16,1908 which tried to finally mark a border between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland.

They failed to agree on a line of demarcation, but they reached understanding establishing "which" Somali clans in the interior came under which "sphere."

1. Tribes facing the Coast
   1. Marehan and Majerten between Shabelle River and British Somaliland
   2. Baadicadde on the Shabelle River
   3. Rahanweyn below the Shabelle River
2. Tribes facing the Ogaden
   • All Ogaadeen principally
   • All Degoodiye principally
   • All Darod, Hawiye, and Dir not within Marehan/Majerten line or Baadicadde line or Rahanweyn line

Understand what this means. The disagreement on the boundary line would henceforth be waged on the back of Somali clans who now represented the boundary!

So when people look at the map today and say "Marehan is at the border"

• Marehan is not AT the border (and neither is Rahanwayn AT the border)
• The Border is "AT MAREHAN" (and AT RAHANWEYN below the Shabelle).

This had drastic consequences primarily for clans in Italian Sphere since the "Ogaden" is grazing and it also had drastic consequences for some groups in Ethiopian sphere (Bah Geri had to move back from Beled Weyne Areas and Degoodiye from Daua River);

But the most disastrous consequence was for Marehan---who for the 5th generation now running---were completely pushed out "POLITICALLY" from their original homeland from Warder to the Shabelle River, including the overwhelming majority of Shilabo/Shilave "territory"----


----and to this day are the single largest disenfranchised Somali clan in Ethiopia, still settling an area the would be the 3rd biggest district in Somali region with historically 0, absolutely 0 representation in administration.

To go back to Marehan Farese, her Marehan inhabitants were harried, the settlement was destroyed, and it was effectively "erased" from situated referencing.

That's why the last references to Marehan Farese are from that period surrounding 1908.

Marehan, the human people, were made the "boundary" and any existence of a "Marehan Farese" outside Warder then signified the "threat" of Italian claim to Warder.

And did Marehan partake in the convention that made them a "border?" Did they choose to be implicated in imperialism? Did they concur with the induction into a sphere? Did they have any say, whatsoever, about the intrusion into their existence and livelihood?

When you hear an "Ogaden" today egregiously claim Marehan land and settlements in which they are not even 'sharing' with Marehan like Fadhigaraadle, Laasacaanood, Ceel Baxay, Cilaanle, Garasle, Ceel Dibir, etc, understand exactly that the nasty, odious, contemptible sense of hubris has origins in that original sin.

Ayax tag eelna reeb!

The locust [White European colonist] left---but he left his larvae [nasty colonial legacy]!

Not derailing the topic, I was watching Haile Salase documentary the other day, interesting the history of Ethiopia and the Emperors they had, I noticed the search Ethiopia for sea port is not something new and that Haile Salase was visiting France and England to pressure them giving Ethiopia sea port which they rejected at the end he took Eritrea

Sh Abdi Hersy, with Cagjar as fan & listener, says "Marehan has faced EXTRAORDINARY injustice in Somali Region from OG."


Sh Abdi Hersy disclaims that "he only used Muuse Gumcadle informants for this broadcast."

He says he did that after becoming so shocked by the veracity and corroboration of the injustice against Marehan from the perspective of BOTH sides that he then chose to only use the Ogaden informants for the broadcast as a "reinforcement" of the strength, level, and bredth of injustice faced by Marehan in his own historical land in Somali Region.

Now imagine the full extent of injustice if the Sheikh included the Marehan perspective.

Everything that the Ogaden has said about the Amxaar the Ogaden has been to the Marehan in his own historical land.

Probably worse since the Amxaar doesn't differentiate Ogaden from other Somalis.

7:45



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For Murax!

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⌃ everything the qowsar Liyu police did, the SSDF was worse to Marehan. The first target of Liyu police are their qowsar cousins rebelling against the regime. They occasionally drunk shoot at Isakh or Marehan. The SSDF waged waged a targetted campaign

^Ogaadeen iyo Majeerteen ba waa walaalaha Mareexaan. Meeshaan sxb, XAAL baa loo fadhiyaa, khalad ayaad ka fahantay hadaad XUMAYN la timid.