Fake historians in Somaliland

[Abtigiis]

If you have the misfortune of watching Somaliland TVs, you will get sick with the amount of lies and misinformation served to the innocent people by a crop of fake Tolka historians. One of them was on HCTV last night and it wasn’t any different.

 

The lie starts from June 26, 1960. According to the new ‘historians’ the struggle against British occupation was to establish a Somaliland state or that is the feeling you will get when you listen to this pretentious history tellers. “Most of the people wanted to take time and discuss what kind of relationship we will have with Southern Somalia, but few zealous but good-hearted leaders made the decision to join Somalia”, he said. This is in sharp contrast to the fact that is known to many that the Somali’s in the North were part, if not the leaders, of the aspiration to achieve a free Somaliweyn. Indeed, when Timacadde was chanting with delight “sareeyoow ma nusqaamow, kana siib kana saar”, he wasn’t having second thoughts about joining the South.

 

The next lie is that the Somalilanders soon found out that it was a mistake to join the union as early as early 1960s when some army officers mutined and were arrested. While individuals who did not personally get what they wanted from the new independence were the one’s who led the dissent, evidence are abound the people of the North fought unreservedly in the 1977 war with Ethiopia and were happy to be with Somalia. Trouble started later, as far as the feeling of the clan that has faced ethnic cleansing is concerned. This is another misconstruction of what the situation was.

 

And then the third and biggest lie comes in the claim that the SNM fought to reclaim the ‘lost independence of Somaliland’. Mohamed Mooge would have disputed this. He sung about oppression and struggle never about secession.

[Caano Geel]

Don't upset your self bro, after all, you have to start the brainwashing somewhere. I suggest you go to the schools/colleges/uni versities and try to see what they define to be history there.

 

You can tell most about a society by looking to what it tries to rub out of from its history

[Jacaylbaro]

If you have the misfortune of watching Somaliland TVs, you will get sick

Good ... that is the point ....

[Castro]

Originally posted by Caano Geel:

Don't upset your self bro, after all, you have to start the brainwashing somewhere. I suggest you go to the schools/colleges/uni versities and try to see what they define to be history there.

 

You can tell most about a society by looking to what it tries to rub out of from its history

It's been a very successful campaign of disinformation. It makes you wonder about what else has been erased or revised from history here and around the world.

 

If I hadn't physically been in NW Somalia in 1987 and old enough to know better, I'd have believed the garbage too.

 

What I wonder about however, is how grown men and women at home and in the Diaspora would parrot what they know to be outright (and outrageous) lies to anyone that cares to listen. Uff.

 

You can brainwash your children but don't pull this shit on the rest of us.

[Jacaylbaro]

Funny people even want to dictate our own history ......

[Caano Geel]

Originally posted by Jacaylbaro:

Funny people even want to dictate our own history ......

would please be kind enough to define "our".

 

And in all honesty, I don't say this to bait you, but to try to understand how our thinking differs

[Jacaylbaro]

our = Somaliland ..... very basic indeed.

[Johnny B]

^ JB , wilkan canaha gela ka dhege war bu donaya manata , so don't answer him as the honest Somalilander you are.

 

 

Emperor, Sad, but the only antidote seems to be keeping the real history alive.

 

SNM Secessionists have no time being honest about the very history they want to erase.

[Caano Geel]

JB, sorry for missing the obvious, and what defines being a member of 'our'

[Caano Geel]

Jonny-Boy, pourquoi êtes-vous effrayer les gens loin de moi

[Johnny B]

^parce que vous êtes qui vous êtes.

 

Et toutes les fois que je vois qu'un lion est sur le point de me prendre à un cerf commun juste avoir la nécessité de sauver des deers.

 

 

Allors?!

[Caano Geel]

moi ou vous?

il est evident que vous faites reference à votre

[Johnny B]

parfois je vous prennent pour moi. : p

[MAXIMUS POWERS]

Refutation of A&T treacherous misrepresentation of Somaliland History

 

When on the 26th June 1960, Britain granted independence to the Somaliland protectorate, ending 80 years of colonial rule, some 38 countries recognised Somaliland. Five days later, Italian Somaliland achieved independence from Italy and immediately joined the formally British Somaliland in the north to form the Somali republic. Although theoretically united as a single nation at independence, the former Italian colony in the south and Somaliland were from an institutional standpoint, two separate countries. Italy and Britain had left them with separate adminstrative, legal and education system where affairs were conducted in different languages. Police, taxes and the exchange rates of their currencies were also different. The orientations of their educated elites were divergent and economic contacts between the two regions were virtually non-existent.

 

The new Somali republic quickly experience growing pains shortly after the union. Somalilanders saw themselves loosing everything to the south, including their identity as equals partners in the union and most importantly the right for a separate referendum to decide their own destination without coercion. These problems were further exacerbated by perceived southern domination of the new government.

 

If there was something Somalilanders got in return from the union it was derogatory remarks. The Somalilanders immediately questioned the merits of the union. They turned against their impulsive leaders who hijacked their hard won independence to the south without negotiating for the union act. I believe the blame was squarely laid on the doors of those fanatic ill-spirited politicians who did not master the basic ropes of governance, relinquishing the independence of their beloved country by united with the Italian Somalia without any popular approval through a separate referendum.

 

It thus came to pass soon the union between the legal states was driven by an irresistible blind impulse and pure unreasoning emotion. Both the impulsiveness and the emotions were exclusively and solely from the Somaliland side. Those emotional and impulsive Somaliland leaders who took seriously the ritual lip service to the romantic notion of ‘Greater Somalia’, soon sadly has found themselves living to rue in posterity their naïve credulity.

 

Adeer, please find a smaller cause you can entertain us with! Cheers

[Abtigiis]

Who are the "Somalilanders" who got deragotary remarks? Let us talk undiplomatically. Rer-Hebel?

 

See that is what I object about this charade. Let the truth be said which is Rer-Hebel wants a separate entity for themselves!! The other clans in British Somaliland are not saying they were insulted, they are not saying they are not being treated fairly.