Actually SNM was still active controlling the countryside and rural areas carrying out hit and run attacks, they had a whole conference in a village called Bali Gubadle after 88, SNA was limited to the admin regional capitals. SSDF also had various hibernate cells who came out of hiding after 91 and fought off the Islamist radicals in Bosasso and beyond but it's not here or there. The fact you see no need for reconciliation and holding elections to save the country going through such extraordinary circumstances shows you didn't have Somalia's interest at heart only Barre's continues grip on power. A truly sane and patriotic president would prioritize reconciliation and steps to hold nationwide elections if it means it would bring an end to an increasingly wide spread armed rebellion headed by disgruntled people with legitimate grievances. You had no problem citing the public support for his coup in 1969 but when the same people asked for change after 77 War suddenly their opinion doesn't matter and you have to resort to military solutions and scorched earth policies. Make that make sense.
They didn't control the country side in actuality, they lost every single time and just resorted to petty banditry in the outskirts after failing to invade to major cities and they would sneak into both the rural areas and country side, to hide amongst the civilian populous.
Here is Sillanyo even explaining this
''So that we can infiltrate and disperse them into nomadic and urban settlement''
They purposefully tried to bring the civilians into their war against the government.
I don't know how you can sympathize with people who purposefully tried to draw out the government to inflict harm on the civilian population and with people who did combined attacks and bombings with Ethiopia on the border towns and major northern cities.
The regimes approval or popularity didn't tank after the Ogaden war amongst the publics.
The Somali public's rebuke was never towards the regime, it was towards Ethiopia ,Cuba and Soviet who they blamed.
I can show you clips of Somalis taking to the streets in solidarity with the regime and with Ogaden and holding up anti-soviet, ethiopia and anti cuba posters.
When Siad Barre had returned from his car accident in the mid 80s hundreds of thousands of Somali came out to greet him on the streets holding green tree branches symbolizing rebirth.
I have also showed that there was never an organized resistance against the regime domestically. It was all organized abroad or by Ethiopia after the war , who invited disgruntled traitors so they could destabilize and seek revenge through them.
No it wasn't. It was the 25th poorest country in the world out of 190 which is common because all African and Asian countries just got their independence and don't have much to work with. May I ask how the change could've come when Barre was busy arresting, jailing and killing all his political rivals? Not only that, he was grooming his son Masale to rule after him so clearly he didn't care about people's opinion of his government or the need for change of leadership.
During the 70s and early 80s Somalia had lower levels of poverty than most other low income Sub Saharan African countries.
It also had higher literacy rates, higher access to education and health care.
Generating wealth and building viable industries takes decades. So you can't expect Somalia to be super wealthy country right away, especially before being able to tap into extra-ordinary resources like oil or gas or mining.
He didn't arrest or jail political rivals at all. He jailed and arrested people who either were corrupt, alied with the enemy, gave away top governments secrets or tried to sow divisions.
Believe it or not his son was not his successor it was Samatar, who is Tumaal and not even related him by blood. He was widely seen as his protegee.
All this word salad you keep conjuring falls flat on it's face. When you judge an individual, you don't take the good part and leave the ugly side. He had a good run the first 7 years, but we're going to judge him for the whole 20 years he's been in power. That's what accountability means. Don't judge the first 7 years or the last 13 years but for the whole 20 years. This is really simple I don't know why you keep running in circles and chasing your tail. His Ogaden war, refugees, political oppression, divide and conquer Qabyalad, human rights violations, dependency on aid, poor economy all together were a net negative to the Somali Nation. All the good work he put the first 7 years were washed away with the later 13 which resulted in the collapse of the Somali State. We're looking at the end result not the milestones. You can speculate all your want about the upcoming Utopia he was going to build after the defeat in Ogaden war all you want, it doesn't change the fact he derailed the Somali nation out of it's path for the next +30 years with his selfishness and greed.
How is it word salad or conjuring when i back things up with interviews, documents , testimonials from the time period in question. It's sound analysis
And you are right i don't judge him on the first 10 years alone. I also judge him on how he maneuvered and responded to things in the 10 years after the Ogaden war. Everything he did was trying to held the country together.
When he went into a war in Ogaden Somalia had many advantages, Ethiopia was embroiled in civil conflict, they were butchering eachother in the elite circles, was distracted with their conflict with Eritrea, the US terminated it's military support for Ethiopia. So Ethiopia was pretty much weakened at that point and he sought to take advantage of it.
How can you find fault with a man for going to war to liberate his own people? Especially since he had exhausted every peaceful diplomatic action before hand and Somalis situation in Ogaden was deteriorating.
How can you talk about aid or poor economy when the government diverted 1/3 of its budget from the surplus capital they had generated that was meant to ensure Somalia's 100% self-reliant but used it instead to save Somalis from the north from drought between 1974-1975.
How is that indicative of him being a bad leader? It's indicative of him putting his people first.
You can miss me with this MOD tribal and human rights BS the only tribalist i see is you people who sympathize with the tribal militia gangs who allied with the enemy to destroy the country and bring suffering to their own people.
Siad Barre never instigated human rights abuses, or ordered them to happen either. So you can't squarly blame it on him , human rights violations are common in most armed conflicts.
Forget the lack of plan aspect of these proxies. The biggest proof that you are the one spewing word salad is in the fact that in the aftermath of Siad Barre's regime, they didn't improve on any of these things. Did they improve human rights? Did they build governments that are exclusionary of all Somalis regardless of clan? Did they develop the economy and become richer less aid dependent economies? Did they create less political repression? did they create less refugees?
They SDF, USC and SNM did none of these things.
If their opposition to him was rooted in any of these diatribes, it would show in the results.