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Gubbet Marehan - Ogaden relationship died with afweyne and Farmaajo placed the final nails into the casket. Maybe you are speaking about our political interests but that won’t align as long as Farmaajo is in the picture. Otherwise you are day dreaming to think Ogadens haven’t forgotten about the genocide and land grabbing Marehans committed in Buurdhuubo,Baardheere,Fafaxdhuun,and southern Gedo. We are far too generous to not have taken full revenge for the crimes committed in the past.
Thank you for a wonderful opportunity to correct the record.
This is all false. It is the mythology used to assauge grievance making.
For example: Faafaxdhuun.
- You guys talk incessantly about it claiming it as where "Siad Barre" removed the last Ogaden grazing in Gedo.
- In reality Marehan seized Faafaxdhuun through active state of hostilities over a 100 years ago
- In 1917, TS Thomas, the Senior Assistant to Nairobi based EAP Governor Belfield wrote from on the ground in Serinley (a suburb of Baardheere), the exact year, month, and date Marehan seized Faafaxdhuun, part of then Serinlay District, after deciding to finally end Abdirahman Mursal's belligerance.
- It was not even the British, but Marehan who made him flee back to Ethiopia once and for all after the 1916 seizure of Faafaxdhuun, the destruction of his maxim gun, and even inflicting a serious wound on him
- The oddly ahistorical fixation with Faafaxdhuun as a Siad Barre inflicted grievance by Ogaden is simple, not complex to explain as an ethos for myth creation
- Faafaxdhuun was just another watering hole like all others in the land. The reason Ogaden make a huge issue out of Faafaxdhuun is because of the psychological impact and inference to be drawn internally about group identity since it is where the decisive Marehan defeat of Abdirahman Mursal was forever concluded.
- There was no more Abdirahman Mursal in the entire land, issue, or context of the whole of the new land after the Marehan victory and seizure of Faafahdhuun.
- Faafaxdhuun was just another watering hole like all others in the land. The reason Ogaden make a huge issue out of Faafaxdhuun is because of the psychological impact and inference to be drawn internally about group identity since it is where the decisive Marehan defeat of Abdirahman Mursal was forever concluded.
- He literally fled back to Ethiopia, whence he originally migrated from, and he died in his ancestral lands in Afdheer.
- It would have been extraordinarily unusual for Ogaden oral history, like all nomadic Somali oral history, to recognize and contribute to the codification and passing down of such, objectively-speaking, an "ignomonious defeat" conclusively settled at their greatest expense; namely the informing factor of Somali clan identity in-group and their oral historical continuity of valor, strength, and perpetual victory, etc etc etc
Apparently the only things in subjective Somali historiagraphy going by what our clans tell us.
- It would have been extraordinarily unusual for Ogaden oral history, like all nomadic Somali oral history, to recognize and contribute to the codification and passing down of such, objectively-speaking, an "ignomonious defeat" conclusively settled at their greatest expense; namely the informing factor of Somali clan identity in-group and their oral historical continuity of valor, strength, and perpetual victory, etc etc etc
- They could not and did not ever recognize Faafaxdhuun was lost in 1916, because to do so would be to recognize WHY it was lost.
- No Somali clan would voluntarily recognize why a Faafaxdhuun was lost in 1916.
- So of course, then, 'Siad Barre stole it for Marehan."
- Remarkably unfortunate for Ogaden in this situation, the British Government was now ruling this part of the Somali territory and Mr TS Thomas, the Senior Assistant to Nairobi based EAP Governor Belfield, was now officially tasked with on the record field scribing.
