I know we hear the common 'myths' he was mad-man who killed people because of tribe, raped women, looted properties. This is only one side of the history of Aideed and it's TOTALLY BIASED to the facts surrounding this man. Aideed only started killing 'daaroods' when they started to create a 'dual govt' with 'ali mahdi' as president. Before that, we wouldn't of known what Aideed plan was for Somalia if he wasn't disturbed by some spoilers.
I say this because look at 'siyad barre' who was a military man and from a clan that is not known for 'wisdom or political saviness', the nation didn't interfere and let him run the country for 21 years and some people consider him the 'father of the nation' till today. What if we let Aideed run Somalia and not install another government. Give him 5 year mandate to turn away from military activities and begin the 'nation building' no-one knows what aideed could've amounted too. I personally think he would've been a Somali hero.
Why you may ask? He clearly was a 'general' and military guys are not known for corruption, looting, and pure nationalist. Their not even known for 'politics' but keep the nation heart as their sole priority. That's why the 'military' men are usually always loved in the western history, their not about politics or ideas or a small party or group but the national good like 'churchill'. The other thing is Aideed was literally broke, he inherited nothing from the loot, so he clearly had ambitions larger then 'economic gains'. There was no tribal warfare happening untill 'ali mahdi' was elected as President of Somalia while HG did the 'military gains' not 'abgaal' which is a big kick in the teeth runti.
I personally like to think Somalia would've gone down a different path if Aideed was given 5 year mandate and no opposition existed so we can examine what his intention was for the nation. Unfortunately this didn't happen and we will never know. He responded tribally in the end to the 'jambal' of 'ali mahdi' presidency to ensure he can remain surviving and I think he responded tribally because he knew it was the darod who did this in particularly Majerten and why the brunt of killings were towards Majerten and not so much other darods.
Anyways a careful analysis needs to be done of Aideed prior to ali mahdi presidential nomination and after ali mahdi presidential nomination and we need to ask ourselves why would we ball bust the man. I personally have a soft spot for HG, we as PL have been shifted towards abdillahi yusuf view of HG to 'destroy at all cost' HG, where-as my ancestors such as keenadiid were about building up and helping 'HG' when they came to Galgaduud. I think this difference of views towards HG is still silently raging within PL and blew out in a total war in 2001 in PL.
I say this because look at 'siyad barre' who was a military man and from a clan that is not known for 'wisdom or political saviness', the nation didn't interfere and let him run the country for 21 years and some people consider him the 'father of the nation' till today. What if we let Aideed run Somalia and not install another government. Give him 5 year mandate to turn away from military activities and begin the 'nation building' no-one knows what aideed could've amounted too. I personally think he would've been a Somali hero.
Why you may ask? He clearly was a 'general' and military guys are not known for corruption, looting, and pure nationalist. Their not even known for 'politics' but keep the nation heart as their sole priority. That's why the 'military' men are usually always loved in the western history, their not about politics or ideas or a small party or group but the national good like 'churchill'. The other thing is Aideed was literally broke, he inherited nothing from the loot, so he clearly had ambitions larger then 'economic gains'. There was no tribal warfare happening untill 'ali mahdi' was elected as President of Somalia while HG did the 'military gains' not 'abgaal' which is a big kick in the teeth runti.
I personally like to think Somalia would've gone down a different path if Aideed was given 5 year mandate and no opposition existed so we can examine what his intention was for the nation. Unfortunately this didn't happen and we will never know. He responded tribally in the end to the 'jambal' of 'ali mahdi' presidency to ensure he can remain surviving and I think he responded tribally because he knew it was the darod who did this in particularly Majerten and why the brunt of killings were towards Majerten and not so much other darods.
Anyways a careful analysis needs to be done of Aideed prior to ali mahdi presidential nomination and after ali mahdi presidential nomination and we need to ask ourselves why would we ball bust the man. I personally have a soft spot for HG, we as PL have been shifted towards abdillahi yusuf view of HG to 'destroy at all cost' HG, where-as my ancestors such as keenadiid were about building up and helping 'HG' when they came to Galgaduud. I think this difference of views towards HG is still silently raging within PL and blew out in a total war in 2001 in PL.