I am suprised how nice we are to DIR. Never heard of DIR N DAROD war in my life, there is clearly some respect and honor between us. But they tend to side with oromo, hawiye or even 'statue' over Darod on all policies. Djibouti Carta Conference being one and the many 'irir' govt support they gave in Djibouti. Wallahi if it wasn't for Siiyad Bare in 1977 going to Djibouti and saying stop enjoying the colonial status, free yourself, they would probably a colony till today.
I find these clans are not mentally 'strong' for some reason, do u get this feeling? they lack independent though ,criticism, analysis, like they won't do it themselves, they wait for white man to tell them how things are going to be. They are always DEPENDENT at all times.
for hundreds of years, Ogaden has given them the most gorgeous Ogaden girl, camels, made them sheikhs, but always we kept them away from power, how? we never for one allow Ogaden leadership like sultans to marry outside of Absame, this is a fact, sultans, ugas, garad cannot marry them only Absame, also we told any man who wants to sit next to the ugas /ismi/royalty must be of pure Absame blood,
so we kept the peace because Ogaden is a very large tribe and doesn't abuse people, we give them girls for marriage, camels and the boy will say abti abti abti, but he knows his boundaries, leadership is for us, if another tribe was there i think they would have gone to war with them,
they have a lot of cuqdad, dir, shekaal, reer aw hassan, gadson etc but Ogaden always reminds them leadership is for us, they have minority rights, majority rules,
another thing, no matter where the Ogaden lad is born, like ahmed madoobe born in mudug, yusuf hassan Mp of eastleigh, they are or were sent to Ogaden to learn culture, deen, the Ogaden abtiris and Ogaden way , this is why ahmed madoobe doesn't fear ethiopians, he has lived with ONLF when he was sent from mudug to qabri dahar - i know because he is married to my mums first cousin,
so at a young age, Ogaden parents avoid their kids interacting with all these minorities in our land, we want him to have a mindset of them and us, native and guest,
and lastly, due to the shear size of the Ogaden, they are like a drop of water in the Ogaden ocean,
also because the Ogaden has history, famous warriors and kings and poets, so he doesn't need the history of others, he is confident in himself and his people and his past, so in a way he looks down on others, but in a respectful way
Ogaden by nature keep to themselves, even the darood kablalax,, somalinimo etc doesn't face him, he lives in a universe full of his kind, he doesn't need numbers, man power, how can a man who has 245 Mps out of 280 need you? when ONLF won 87% of the votes whilst dir, 1door , gadabursi etc ganged up on him, why does he need anyone?
so in terms of numbers he doesn't need you, soldiers, customers, history, fame, past, we do not interact
when i see Ogaden men in coffee shop, its 1005 them, they avoid others, because they are so large they dont need others