I heard Siad Barre couldn't read but I don't know
Siyaad used to give illiterate clansmen positions.
My grandfather wasn't meeraxan, but in the 80s he tried to take office from Siad, and was Murdered in Iraq.
Darbi Daroodlelkase
Siyad was an illiterate big mouthed beast who ruined somalia. We had our president like the great aden cade(aun) then ina Sharmarke(aun), after those 9 years somalia and somalinimo died.
Bro Siad made us great and destroyed us at the same time, we done need to speak ill of a deceased man. At the begging of his term he built factories, increased the Somali GDP, helped so many African nations i.e. Zimbabwe, built one of the largest army on the continent, build monuments such as my profile pic Sayyid (Dervish State), hosted and was Head of Au (now they own us), but mid 80's so many people wanted him out of power or tried to take over and he killed them, that's why SL wants independence because he bombed 50,000 isaaq.
The thing that DESTROYED Somalia was the Ogaden War, we wasn't' well equipped, we beat the Ethiopians but should have considered foreign interventions.
Before the Ogaden War in the early 1970s he was controlling the farm lands in Shabeelle and jubbada with his fellow darood. They made raxanweyn and bantu slave on their own land while controlling the trade of produce (sorghum, bananas, etc) I don't kno why the fk my ppl didn't karbaash him back then. He was insincere from the beginning. iidoor fought the good war for their rights and in koonfur we should've done the same in the early 70s. He completely sowed mistrust between all somali clans
@Thegoodshepherd so you don't believe in Puntland separating?
Puntland as state would never work. It is probably the most resource-poor place humans can live in. I doubt whether Puntland will be habitable 40 years from now. It is a total hellhole, and I want my people to have the option to move to Juboyinka in the next decades when the whole thing becomes part of the Sahara.