military Posted January 29, 2004 MY DEAR SISTER YASMINE I WOULD ALSO SAY THAT YOU ARE NOT CORRECT IN WHAT YOU HAVE STATED ABOVE.THERE WAS RESISTANCE AGAINST THE FORMER SIAD BARRE REGIME AND THE FIRST PEOPLE TO FORM A RESISTANCE REBEL MOVEMENT WERE INDEED (WITHOUT MENTIONING THE TRIBE)THE PEOPLE WHO PREDOMINANTLY LIVE IN AND CONTROL PUNTLAND BUT UNFORTUNATELY THEY FAILED AND I'M VERY SAD TO SAY THEY WERE DEMOLISHED IN A VERY BRUTAL MANNER WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE IN SOMALIA, FOR THE DICTATOR SIAD BARRE KNEW NO LIMITS AND HAD NO MERCY EVEN FOR HIS OWN PEOPLE.THEN IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES A RESISTANCE MOVEMENT CALLED THE SNM WAS FORMED IN LONDON AND THEN LATER ON HAD AN OFFICE IN THE NEIGHBOURING ETHIOPIA WHERE THE COULD CARRY OUT THEIR WORK SUCCESSFULLY.SOME OF THE SNM WERE TRAINED IN ETHIOPIA AND OTHERS JOINED INSIDE CITIES SUCH AS HARGEISA,BURCO,BERBERA JOINED LATER WHEN THEY REALISED THAT THEY HAD NO OPTION LEFT BUT TO JOIN THEIR PEOPLE IN THEIR STRUGGLE AND DEFEND THEMSELVES OR THEY TOO WOULD END UP DEAD.MEANWHILE SIAD BARRE WAS SO ANGRY AT THIS REBEL MOVEMENT IN NORTHERN SOMALIA THAT HE UNLEASHED A FULL SCALE ATTACK IN THE NORTH AND EVEN HIRED SOUTH AFRICAN PILOTS TO BOMB AND RAID THE NORTHERN CITIES WHICH KILLED THOUSANDS AND DESTROYED THE CITIES TO RUBBLES.NOW AT THE SAME TIME THE SNM WERE FIGHTING THE GOVERNMENT TROOPS, AIDID HAD MADE A DEAL WITH THE SNM TO GET RID OF SIAD BARRE FOR GOOD.SO THE SNM DEMOLISHED THE GOVERNMENT TROOPS IN THE NORTH AND THEN SIAD BARRE HAD NOTICED THAT THERE WAS INFACT CIVIL UNREST STARTING UP IN THE CAPITAL MOGADISHU, SO WHEN HE REALISED THAT HIS TROOPS WERE BEING FINISHED OFF IN THE NORTH AND THAT THE SNM RESISTANCE WAS SUCCEEDING IN ITS MISSION AND THAT THERE WAS NO HOPE IN HELL, HE THEN COMMANDED HIS TROOPS TO COME BACK TO THE CAPITAL AND PROTECT HIM.BUT AIDID'S FORCES WERE TOO POWERFUL FOR HIM ESPECIALLY SINCE HE HAD BEEN ALREADY SUFFERED A SEVERE BLOW BY THE SNM AND WAS WEAKENED HE WAS NO MATCH FOR THE HONOURABLE AIDID AND WAS EVENTUALLY KICKED OUT FROM SOMALIA. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites