Sbashi,
People do not understand the
degree to which international border politics between Italy-Ethiopia and Italy-Britain and Ethiopia-Britain concerning Somalis affected Marehan more than any other Somali clan.
It is not Ogaden at all.
It was Marehan that was most affected.
1. The boundary between Kenya and Somalia.
2. The Triangle point that is boundary between Kenya-Somalia-Ethiopia
3. The entire southern boundary between Ethiopia and Somalia.
4. Almost the majority of the northern boundary between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland north of the Shabelle.
I mean this is how historically illiterate we are as a nation and shoddy our scholarship that people do not understand how much of Somalia's boundary literally reflects Marehan as a microcosm of the larger ethnic land claims.
Marehan is not "AT" the boundaries of Somalia.
The boundaries of what is Somalia today was contested "AT" Marehan.
You think when British banished Marehan from Kenya and said "we made this line because of you, now stay on the other side" that Marehan nomads are going to simply starve and die of thirst on drought years or they will strategize and use tools at their disposal to overcome this imposed nuisance trying to control the movement of their grazing?
[One of the single most dominant female Kenyan politicians right now who is Degoodiye is Marehan and she is from my sub-clan of reer Siyaad
I have not met her, but Sadeboi who used to be here has and she is more
Tuulo Barwaaqo than he is.
Every Marehan juffo couple families from among them to "embed" in the other side of the border and facilitate easy movement across the artificial border for access during the general migratory movement between Jilaal dryness and Gu rains and especially be safely net when Gu Gu rains fail and drought stalks which was possible every 2 years.
That happened all across the focking border and the embedded know who they are and affirm it and continue being aware of their original "mission."
Even many post-colonial Marehan don't understand or are even aware of it as an actual organized strategy.
One of the funniest things of my participation in this forum concerns the "Dhuusamareeb" issue.
I would argue about it and then I decided let me understand this issue myself and I was going to inform it all.
As soon as I understood it, waan iska aamusay. Shib! To this second, I have not disclosed anything what resulted from my "research."
If the elders let ithe myth permeate for a reason, who am I to disclose it.
The only reason the Reer Yusuf Mayor of Qabri Dahare can even do something like this is a reflection of how much things have cooled between Marehan and Ethiopia and the original hostilities necessitating strategies to continue accessing their grazing land have tremendously declined.
Yahye and Moorif are real and their forms are your forms.
