I would allow all Mudug/Galguduud Daroods into Puntland. What do the people of saaxo have to do with siad barre? Pls stop this useless qabyaalad from 41 years ago.
She's right. Siad Barre recruited his Red Berets heavily from certain clans with Wagardhac being an obvious one. They committed unspeakable atrocities against us just because they could without a second thought. We haven't forgotten.
The Saaxo community are apart of Puntland state cuqdada iska saara boowe
They are part of Puntland by the grace of reer Mudug. Since they aren't part of Puntland proper, they breathe only by our permission. We can forsake them at any point and watch them get swallowed whole by Hawiye.
I'm simply stating a fact , most MJ I have met do not vehemently hate Siad barre and some reminisce his time. I'm not MJ but from bosaso as Warsan.
Siad Barre's atrocities were focused on certain subclans in north Mudug. Most other Majeerteens were insulated from it but still faced discrimination in Mogadishu. The reason why many Majeerteen don't hate Siad as much as you might expect is because we were on the same side in 1991 when Hawiye ignited a clan war but it was a very rocky road getting there.
Over the course of a decade, SSDF was the only rebel movement in the country and was systematically dismantled by not one but
two countries: Somalia
and Ethiopia. There's a lot of talk about the SSDF being supported by Ethiopia but not a lot of talk about Siad Barre collaborating with them.
All of the leaders were killed or arrested and the remaining members were forced to surrender. They came to a deal with the Siad Barre that put his war against our clan on hold. At this point, other rebel movements began sprouting up across the country and he needed less enemies. With murmurs of Hawiye plans to genocide Darood across the country, old enemies turned into allies over night. Even Morgan, the biggest traitor of them all, was welcomed back into the fold because of the larger threat posed by the rabid horde of bloodthirsty hůtus.
Much of today's politics is more informed by the more recent and turbulent civil war than the events of the 70s and 80s and Majeerteen in general don't hold grudges for better or worse.
