Some of you guy think Abdulahi Yusuf was a traitor but I will proof you wrong, bear with me with no prejudice for once in your life and listen to this interview you will realize AY was a remarkable and great visionary leader and the most patriotic leader we ever had.
I will translate to some of y'all who don't understand Somali like @The Good and others and summarize key points of this interview,let me remind you AY did this confession at his best friend's funeral in London after a life threatening heart surgery.
1. He talks about how he couldn't take the MSB killings of the MJs and arresting them including him for 9 years, after MSB released him after 9 years in jail and he led an army to free Ogadenia for the 1977 war, after coming back from the war him and his MJ friends orchestrated a plan to topple the MSB regime and their plan went wrong and they failed miserably, MSB found out about their plan and killed all the MJs in his government , AY and some the MJ army general's fled to Ethiopia and later he decided to rebel and started the SDDF with his friends.
2.After securing an army and Ethiopian support they tried to capture Puntland regions through Galadogob which they succeed after a heavy battle.
3. The Ethiopian soldiers tried to put their flag on it which he objected and later after stand-off between the SSDF army and the Ethiopian army they agreed to put the Somali flag instead.
4. After capturing some parts of mudug, the Ethiopian switched on him and demanded they would stop funding him if the Ethiopian flag is not erected on these new captured villages, he mentions Ethiopians wanted to distract Somali government claim to Ogadenia.
5. Then he found out SNM signed a deal with Ethiopia to get them an independence from Somalia,upon hearing this news he traveled to Adis Ababa and asked Mangisto why would he want to cut Somalia into two when Ethiopia dont't want Eritrea to secede from it, he describes Mengisto as small midget half of his size,after meeting with the Ethiopian Emperor he went to meet the UN for Somalia and told him about Ethiopi's grand plan to cut Somalia into two, the UN representative told him there is not much he can do it about it.
6. AY told all the soldier to go home and advised them the Ethiopians tricked us and told his soldiers he would rather cut a deal with MSB than help Ethiopians claim their land and give SL independence,AY and all the SSDF leaders fled to Kenya and asked for a political asylum.
7.He stayed in Kenya and watched Somalia go into an apocalypse mode and later it bothered him to watch his country collapse and decided to do something about it, he mentions he was the first person to start this mess and felt he could fix it, AY decided to put Somalia back on track and pulled strings to secure the Somali presidency and tried fix the country so he could die in peace and not known as traitor.
I will translate to some of y'all who don't understand Somali like @The Good and others and summarize key points of this interview,let me remind you AY did this confession at his best friend's funeral in London after a life threatening heart surgery.
1. He talks about how he couldn't take the MSB killings of the MJs and arresting them including him for 9 years, after MSB released him after 9 years in jail and he led an army to free Ogadenia for the 1977 war, after coming back from the war him and his MJ friends orchestrated a plan to topple the MSB regime and their plan went wrong and they failed miserably, MSB found out about their plan and killed all the MJs in his government , AY and some the MJ army general's fled to Ethiopia and later he decided to rebel and started the SDDF with his friends.
2.After securing an army and Ethiopian support they tried to capture Puntland regions through Galadogob which they succeed after a heavy battle.
3. The Ethiopian soldiers tried to put their flag on it which he objected and later after stand-off between the SSDF army and the Ethiopian army they agreed to put the Somali flag instead.
4. After capturing some parts of mudug, the Ethiopian switched on him and demanded they would stop funding him if the Ethiopian flag is not erected on these new captured villages, he mentions Ethiopians wanted to distract Somali government claim to Ogadenia.
5. Then he found out SNM signed a deal with Ethiopia to get them an independence from Somalia,upon hearing this news he traveled to Adis Ababa and asked Mangisto why would he want to cut Somalia into two when Ethiopia dont't want Eritrea to secede from it, he describes Mengisto as small midget half of his size,after meeting with the Ethiopian Emperor he went to meet the UN for Somalia and told him about Ethiopi's grand plan to cut Somalia into two, the UN representative told him there is not much he can do it about it.
6. AY told all the soldier to go home and advised them the Ethiopians tricked us and told his soldiers he would rather cut a deal with MSB than help Ethiopians claim their land and give SL independence,AY and all the SSDF leaders fled to Kenya and asked for a political asylum.
7.He stayed in Kenya and watched Somalia go into an apocalypse mode and later it bothered him to watch his country collapse and decided to do something about it, he mentions he was the first person to start this mess and felt he could fix it, AY decided to put Somalia back on track and pulled strings to secure the Somali presidency and tried fix the country so he could die in peace and not known as traitor.
