What did the SSDF do exactly?
They did quite a lot they weakened the Somali army dramatically, they used to do raids on Somali military bases near the borders and kidnap military personnel. They invaded Somalia and captured a few towns and killed some mareexaans. My mother told me this one kinda crazy story......
The crackdown on MJs happened when my mum was very young like 12 years old and my mum was reer Burco, just south of Burco there was a village where my mums people lived in numbers and in the summer my mums whole family would go there for holiday.
In the summer as they were travelling there they decided to stop in this cafe type of place and it was near the army barracks. There was an army general inside and quite a few travellers from all over the North, then the radio was playing and the news came on and it started naming a lot names of military people and a few politicans who were sentenced to death, the army general got up and turned the radio all the way up and told everyone to shut up, as the names were being read out my mum said he was a very lightskin guy and his face started to turn red and everyone was confused because no one knew the people being read out were all Mj. Northeners were quite clueless.
My mum and her family then left and reached their destination, they slept that night then when they woke up to pray fajr my mum said there were military vehicles patrolling the roads and military helicopters flying above, like a war was on the way, then my grandad went to ask some soldiers on patrol what happened and they said that an army general (cafe one) and a few majeerteen soldiers looted the military base and took heavy artillery and tanks and crossed the border into Ethiopia to join SSDF.
