Siigaale

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Siigaale was xaafad kamid ah degmadda Hodan, a crowded, slum-like, small-housed xaafad with a large makiinaddo cajiin dominating its suuq.

 

Why Siigaale?

 

And what does it has to do with politics? In a minute, baliis.

 

Siigaale was also what caused a junk of Xamar permamently destroyed in late '91 and early '92, thus ominously later becoming known as Bermuuda.

 

Those 'junk' parts of Xamar, including its very heart, consisted from many xaafado from the four degmo of Hodan, Waaberi, Hawlwadaag and Wardhiigleey.

 

Half of H/wadaag was completely destroyed in the process of death and destruction. Many xaafado in Hodan as well, from Isgoyska Bakaaraha to Isgoyska Dabka, to Lambarafar to close Isgoyska Kaasa Balbalaare, and every xaafad in it, including Siigaale.

 

Back to Siigaale, it was where the 'uprising' of Ciyaal Siigaale kusoo kaceen against Caydiid's militia in that infamous prolonged battle of four months offensive war against Cali Mahdi and his militias. Caydiid ignored them at first, considering pushing Cali Mahdi on the fringes of nothern Muqdisho, at Kaaraan and Huriwaa. At his own peril.

 

Later when the ciyaal xaafad boys turned militia fighters became more than an annoyance, Caydiid decided to siege them, completely encroaching, enclosing from every point of entry and giving a final devastating push. From Sayidka and Masaajidka Isbaheysiga on the north to Lambarafar in the south, to Isgoyska Bakaaraha in the west and Isbitaal Martiini in the east, all and in between becoming a flash point of daily carnage for several months.

 

It was an ugly urban war, involving the last remaining and functioning tanks Caydiid had from the fallen regime.

 

The offensive and siege did not work, but the stragedy completely destroyed and dhulka dhigtay a third of Xamar, which to this day not a sane soul lives in. To this day, it is a ghost, uninhabited, a vast wasted, derelict land; indeed, an ugly part of Xamar, which always reminded its residents that ugly useless four-month old war, which neither side had won, only bleeding Xamar and its soul.

 

Will now Towfiiq be the new Siigaale? Will it be where the new Bermuuda is born?

 

I'm afraid to say it seems likely that. Aad iyo aad ayaan ugu xumahay another third of Xamar in dhulka la dhigo today, its downtrodden residents lagu laayo, lagu ciribtiro. Iyadoo Xamar jabjabsanayd, haddana loogu sii daro tan cusub.

 

Will Hoteel Towfiiq be the old destroyed Hoteel Maka Almakurama?

 

Will Hoteel Ramadaan be the like the old ruined Hoteel Wehliye?

 

Will Jidka Warshadaha be the old abandoned Jidka Maka Almakurama?

 

Will Isgoyska Cali Kamiin be the old ghost-like Isgoyska Dabka?

 

Will Wasaaradda Gaashaandhiga be the old waxba ka tagneen Dabdamis [Oto'oto]?

 

Will Isbitaal Xayaad be the old Isbitaal Martiini lagu dagaalami jiray?

 

Will Shaneemo Buntilaan be the old wretched Shaneemo Hodan?

 

Will Baar Ayaan be the old now-derelict Baar Raaxo?

 

Will degmadda Yaaqshiid be the new half-abandoned Waaberi, H/wadaag and Hodan?

 

I cannot put words how completely ghost-like Bermuuda is, but here is what Bermuuda looks and looked like, on the fringe [God knows how it looks like in its centre, like Siigaale]:

 

 

I took this picture in 2003 and not a house was standing from Isgoyska Bakaaraha, passing Isgoyska Dabka of Hodan to Isbitaal Martiini and beyond of Waaberi.

 

 

A few yards away from Isgoyska Bakaaraha.

 

 

Cidladda waa aragtaa oo maanta meeshaas iska haawaneyso used to be a vibrant, lively xaafad, and why once again reminding you it the doomful name of Bermuuda.

 

 

If you stand on the street and look straight ahead, you can see Indian Ocean, which is far and was not possible pre-war, courtesy of geedahii iyo guryihii la isla wada dumiye.

 

Xabash now wants to make another junk of Xamar and its residents, our beautiful Xamar saan camal.

[Yaabka-Yaabkiis]

That is where i was born alla maxa jidkaad maraay,darn you send mee xasuus saxib now is called sedex xagalka Barmuuda .

 

Towfiiq might be as Barmuuda maxaa yeelay majority of ciyaal barmuudo from same clan now based at towfiiq and suuqbacaad.

 

Yaabka-Yaabkiis

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Jidkee? Ciyaal Siigaale maa ahaydna? Mise makiinadaha cajiinka meesha ku yaalay ayaa shukaansi u tagi jirtay?

[OLOL]

MMA, saaxiib inaa ciyaal xamar sax tahay horaan u ogaa ...

 

 

saaxiboow sigaale barmuudeey noqotay tii la ogaana waa ka dhacday , haddana sheekadda waxeey u socotaa towfiiq ....siigaale god eey ku taalay o dululub ah marka jdka maka al mukarama laga so dago ... caradeedana xoogaa inta kore duug. saa sheegtayna meelo kooban aa laga soo wiideeyn karaa

 

 

towfiiq waa ka gedisan tahay..bacaad siman eey u badan tahay - mana la soo kornar-gareeyn karo ..intee ka bax ma ka dhaceeyso ...hadeerna dagaalkii tigreega ka dib,, dhufeeysyo iyo godad ilaa huriwaa is heeysta aa laga sameeyay....

 

waxaa kaloo isku xiran min gubudleey ilaa shiirkole - xamar kore waa xor..

 

xamarka hoose - kuwa villadda ku xareeysan dal barxadda wardhiigleey, 15 may, dalbile iyo xararyaale iyo xamar bile eeyba soo dhaafi waayeen...xasuuqa cali kamiin waxaa keenay ..xaruunta xisbigeey daris la tahay...calaa kuli xaal ..ninki dhoof ku yimid baa geeridu dhibeeysaa -- injirleeyda xooga ku timidaa geerida dhibeeysaa ..waqtigiis dhamaadyoo wuu dhaqaaqi doonaa... have faith in the fighters for freedom and liberation of our ..xaafaddo, xeryo and dal iyo dad iyo diin ....Somalia is for Somalis

[rudy-Diiriye]

yo! i do remember this place! i was a the bad boyz who use steal cambo laf there in the late 80s!! u remember u pick 2 of them and pass one to your homie behind u?? this use to work like a charm n never got us into trouble doing it...

 

that place was of full of fruit n merchant stands all ova! sad to see u like that!! lord have mercy... really sad pics.