Here is the result of the 1960 Somaliland election
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African Elections Database: Somalia/Somaliland (tripod.com)
In clan terms: SNL was the major Isaaq party. NUF was the minor Isaaq party. The northernJabartis/northernIrir party was the USP. Isaaq parties took about 80% of the vote. The Irir and Jabarti coalition against Isaaq took about 20% of the vote. However, the British thought chose it was better to generously represent Northern minorities .i.e northernJabartis and northernIrir got extra seats
How can we forget in 1961 coup. Northern soldiers had elite military training in British military academy and war experience from WW2. Then the corrupt mafiosi elite in Somalia Italiana put Southern policemen in charge of the Somali Republic military. Southerners counted the police seniority of their colonial policemen.
The problem was Northerners did not have colonial policemen. The North was not heavily policed by the North. The South had a huge police force tasked with policing southerners so that Italian settlers in Somalia Italiana enjoyed their comfortable plantations.
Northern officers form Isaaq, Jabarti, and Irir communities were repulsed by policemen leading soldiers. They, including the Jabarti and Irir minority soldiers, carried out a failed coup. The soldiers were sent to court. The judge said the court did not have jurisdiction over the soldiers since the 1960 SomalilandLaw ofUnion was not ratified by the South
First see what I wrote above about the reasons for the coup. Revoking was not about Afweyne or clans. Second, see what I wrote below about the Italian/Romance language name Somalia. I agree though that Northerners, including Isaaq, Jabartis and Irirs, should not have revoked the union
Somalia is the word Italian trained southerners use to refer to the land of the Somalis. Somaliland is the Anglo/Germanic name
Southerners should stop using the vocabulary of their former colonial masters