A petition found by Hanan Channel on Tiktok from a Yemeni source describing a quote from the 1950s in the city that goes roughly as follows:
'If the merchant is Somali, the soldiers are Somali and the Qadi is Somali, where will the Yemenis find their rights'
Apparently, the British subsequently removed the Somali Qadi and added more Yemeni soldiers.
A small anecdote but it seems we are a lot of untold and unknown stories in older diaspora communities. There was also some reference to the descendants of Somali settlers of Mukalla forming the town's well to do today and owning much of the land in the city centre.
'If the merchant is Somali, the soldiers are Somali and the Qadi is Somali, where will the Yemenis find their rights'
Apparently, the British subsequently removed the Somali Qadi and added more Yemeni soldiers.
A small anecdote but it seems we are a lot of untold and unknown stories in older diaspora communities. There was also some reference to the descendants of Somali settlers of Mukalla forming the town's well to do today and owning much of the land in the city centre.
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