Dictator Barre was paranoid of MJs. He thought an MJ would unseat him. So he tried to do everything to try to undermine our ppl. He gave most positions to Marehans, Ogaden & Dhulbahante (it was known as MOD alliance). He chased MJs out of their cities (Burtinle & Bosaso for example)...our ppl had to flee to Somali region of Ethiopia. While the MJs were gone, he convinced some minority tribes to go and occupy and claim the land as their own. In Burtinle, he told Awtable (probably spelt wrong I know) to go and claim it and those idiots actually tried to do that. Luckily, our ppl came back and today we are the majority and still run the town. What I find odd is that, those same awtable, who didn't reside in the city prior to Barre sending them there, are still trying to claim it as their own to this day.
In Bosaso, he told people who lived mainly in Sanaag (Dishiishe in particular) to leave their land and claim Bosaso as their own. Bosaso was always an MJ city (Osman Mohamud to be exact) and Barre didn't like that and he tried to change that.
Lastly, Barre tried to do the same in Kismayo, by getting his clansmen to go there in droves and claim it but luckily that too didn't work out for them. Kismaayo still belongs to its rightful owners.
Anyways, I agree with you that MJs need to always remember how cruel Barre was to our people.
https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ad114c.html