TLDR: Barre destroyed Burco and Hargeisa, Aideed destroyed every city and our society. Had Aideed set up a government, Barre would have been captured and put to trail. All that needed to be done is pay reparations to the North for what happened in 1988.
By becoming a savage in 1991, Aideed cost every victim of the Kacaan from ever getting justice from Barre. They allowed Barre to escape and take looted cash with him, while they pillaged Somalia.
What did Caydiid do to Muqdisho that Afweyne didn't do ten times worse to Hargeisa or Burco?
I said Siyaad was only slightly better than Aideed. Only because he actually ran a country horribly for twenty years compared to Aideeds anarchy.
Also Siyaad destroyed Hargeisa and Burco. Aideed destroyed everywhere from Bosasso to Kismaayo, raping, pillaging and murdering innocents in between. There is no comparison.
Just admit your entire opinion is based on qabiilism and stop acting like there is anything remotely reason/fact based about it.
No, I have actually studied Somali history, meaning I have analysed comparative narratives of pre-colonial, colonial, Kacaanist and USC-Somalia. The latter period was the worst by a country mile.
Simple fact is that you are not being objective when you claim a warlord that started two decades of anarchy is better than a brutal dictator of a barely functioning country.
Both are horrible but I would take the dictator because that can be solved.
The fact that you think that what Afweyne did in the north could be solved by sending some aid packages to Hargeisa shows how unbelievably ignorant you are. I would suggest you read about what happened throughout the country in the 80's and 90's and not just rely on what your dad/grandad/uncles tell you.
You completely misunderstood what I said and wrote an emotional response. Allow me to dumb it down for you.
I said all that needed to do in January 1991 was fix the North, with aid packages. With Siyaad not in power, he could have easily been put to trial alongside his associates and victims could have received justice.
I didn't mention the last part because that is what normally happens when a dictator is removed from power effectively.
However, Aideed and his partners screwed over victims of the Kacaan by not establishing a working government to get justice from the Kacaan. Furthermore, all the alleged gold stolen by the Kacaan would have been also captured if we had a functioning government after January 26, 1991.
Also, my family despise the Kacaan and barely any of my family were in Somalia post-1990, so Aideed did not directly affect me.