A contrast of nationalism in today's Somalis and yesteryear

[Warsame101]

Former Somali servicemen and civilians were called to volunteer for duty to defend their country as the Russian-Cuban-Ethiopian-South Yemeni coalition were nearing the Somali border in 1978.

[dawwa9]

Ay am volaanteer, In order to liberate may caawntree

Somali accent

[grandpakhalif]

Mash allah to all those that served and AUN to those that died my uncle was on of em

[ModerateMuslim]

mashallah. nationalism is death in somalia today. no one is fighting for nationalism - there are either those who're fighting in the path of allah or those who're fighting in the path of jahiliyyah without the ambiguity of nationalism.

"Truth has (now) arrived, and Falsehood perished: for Falsehood is (by its nature) bound to perish" [Qur'an 17:81]

[GacanSareeye]

unfortunately these same enthusiast volunteers were exploited by their clans to finally bring down what they fought for in the past. i would have loved if we were little level headed about everything and not just worked off of emotions.

nice video. who recorded and hid all these videos for so long.

[sadeboi]

Mashallah, I feel extreamely proud to see that.

Was it just me or did everyone else hear the lady say "uu sacbiya" before they clapped

[Somaliweyn]

Masha allah

The Somali nation has invested heavily in the 77 war. Many Somali nomads have sold their livestock to finance the war, and many city dwellers registered to fight. Unfortunately, the world conspired against us and the leadership of Somalia made fundamental errors.

All in all, it is a legendary episode in Somalia's history.

[Voltage]

Somebody find that guy around the 30 second section. We will crown him King of Somalilands right now.

[Shonuff]

nice video. who recorded and hid all these videos for so long.

ps. Fuuck Somalis. They were never nationalists. A selfish person can't be a nationalist.

[Cinque Mtume]

Mashallah, I feel extreamely proud to see that.

Was it just me or did everyone else hear the lady say "uu sacbiya" before they clapped

I heard that too. Bless that woman. All the people around him probably didn't understand a word he said to the white guy, but only that lady baa garatey wiilku inuu wax fiican sheegayey oo sacab uu qalma, she didn't have to understand the words to know what the dude was saying.

[Voltage]

The funny thing is it came at an appropriate time, just when the reporter said "and what about the rest of them" and they all fell in like like a movie script.

[Enemy_Of_Mad_Mullah]

nice video. who recorded and hid all these videos for so long.

each vid costs about £139.00 from ITV

[Cinque Mtume]

Priceless. Did you see how the dude got even more riled up when his people started getting off behind him.

That woman hidden in the back is a born leader walee.

[sadeboi]

The biggest difference between Somali and other people is, fighting for you're country for your people and religion is not a sacrifice, it part of who we are. I can't believe for 20 year we wasted that believe in capturing eachother's towns and what not. I await the day we get back to such a state of mind.

[Voltage]

Cinque could be my mom who knows. When the Russians were expelled, there is a well known story in Muqdisho how my mom went to one of the military barracks had some officers drive her on top of a jeep with huge quantities of banana and was throwing at the disgraced Russians unpeeled. She was on Radio Mogadishu singing the song she made up while she bombed the disgraced Russians with the Banana