Sh Abdi Hersy, with Cagjar as fan & listener, says "Marehan has faced EXTRAORDINARY injustice in Somali Region from OG."

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Sh Abdi Hersy disclaims that "he only used Muuse Gumcadle informants for this broadcast."

He says he did that after becoming so shocked by the veracity and corroboration of the injustice against Marehan from the perspective of BOTH sides that he then chose to only use the Ogaden informants for the broadcast as a "reinforcement" of the strength, level, and bredth of injustice faced by Marehan in his own historical land in Somali Region.

Now imagine the full extent of injustice if the Sheikh included the Marehan perspective.

Everything that the Ogaden has said about the Amxaar the Ogaden has been to the Marehan in his own historical land.

Probably worse since the Amxaar doesn't differentiate Ogaden from other Somalis.

7:45

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One of the responses made me chuckle

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Buuro is why I desperately wanted to go to Caabudwaaq and even went there with the intention to "geocode."

I can't imagine the number of times I swooped down to look at satellite imagery of all of that area of Somalis and was struck by an 'oddity.'

That 'oddity' was right outside Caabudwaaq area, to the west over the border, in the actual heart of Marehan, there were gleaming "Emerald" jewels so striking they stood out singularly and distinctly in that reddish-gray landscape of hundreds and hundreds of kilometers in the heart of Somali inhabited land;



And why did it have these clearly visible large pockets of 'islands' of 'wetlands' or areas which clearly are even possibly 'lakes' during wet season and because of so much water held can stay wet and green and even "marshy" long thereafter even through a drought or two because of the amount of water that has to be evaporated by dryness before the land loses all moisture to become "dry";



I realized that was it. That was the secret. Marehan wasn't where he is by 'chance' or 'mistake.' Historically even, he must have been even more powerful among Somalis to singularly have taken the single most important heart of the central plateau grazing land which was the single most important grazing center of the Somali people who are primarily nomadic pastoralists.It wasn't a mistake or luck. It was conquest and domination in the evolutionary fights of the past for jokeying to take best grazing lands and permanent wells;

Before I had even gone on my trip, I started to learn and understand with purpose the history of settlement and population movement in the central plateau. I started to allude to some of what I was learning in snippets like here;

BUT MY FRIEND, THE WATERSHED HAS CUMULATIVE EFFECT...AND THE SHABELLE BASIN RESULTS IN PROVIDING FURTHER MOISTURE WHICH INCREASES PRECIPITATION PICKED UP BY THE CLOSED BASINS.

The closed basins are places like the Bur Region of Burgeesoole/Raqo/Golweyn/Gumburu directly across from Caabudwaaq in Ethiopia.

People don't even know the reason the Hawd was the "Marehan Desert" or "Waterloss Desert" is because of this reason
---When Jilaal, everyone has to leave the Hawd and go back to their permenant wells. Only Marehan is really left and Harti at Galaadi because those are the two most important closed basins who even jn Jilaal can feed although under stress
----When Gu comes, the Shabelle Basin stretches as far as can and FEEDS THE CLOSED BASIN ESPECIALLY AT BUR REGION
---Precipitation swells in the high altitude at Burgeesoole and FEEDS THE DESPERATE DRY AIR OVER Wardheer, Caabudwaaq, Dhuusamareeb to Gaalkacyo
----Then the further feeds the other big closed basin at Galaadi to keep the relay going north.

The more I learned the more my mind literally "exploded" at how singularly significant Marehan settlement in the heart of Somali country was. All those historical maps and his placement in the center, even the migration to the south and the "resources" and "ability" to have done so. I started to learn the geography and geomorphology and even share this---although very clearly I 'knew' a layman couldn't understand just the complete significance of what I was sharing like this post below:

[Keep in mind even then I had put pins on all those Marehan settlements which at that time I did not know, but later would guide me in a structured geocoding on the land]

All of above is like the moment at pre-history after this post.

Just go to Google maps and spend some time running through the land.

1. The single most livable place is Raqo. Raqo is where Golweyn and Burgeesoole are. It literally is shocking to me how singularly important Raqo is. It is called "Buuro", tje heart of Marehan country on the Caabudwaaq side of the border.

2. It has the only grazing, permanent water, climate, and the only settlememts in "Wardheer"/"Doolo" seems to be there. As a matter of facts the wells of Wardheer are all temporary amd seasonal. Cilaanle in Raqo is the last permanent well.

3. There is nothing to Wardheer or Dollo outside of Raqo. Matter of fact, Caabudwaaq is bigger than Dhusamareb, Cadaado, Galaadi, and Wardheer combined. It shocks me but BALANBALE is bigger than Shilabo, Qoroxeey, and Hobyo combined.

If you don't believe me just go to Google Maps and spemd some time there.

Start with Raqo; you will start to understand Marehan MUST have been the "MOST" powerful Somali clan above the Shabelle River (which no Somali nomad historically settled because of the Tsetse fly) to take Raqo.

Here is my mapping of Marehan, I am just showing you where Marehan's Bur region is



I circled Bur region right outside Caabudwaaq going West.

Burgeesoole -Raqo-Golweyn

Just go to google maps and zoom down, then look at ALL OF MUDUG AND ALL OF DDSI UNTIL far east headed towards Harar.

Wallahi it goes from no tree/Mars to all of a sudden Entering the Land of Narnia, forests, EXPANSIVE forests, wadis/valleys, extensive grazing, pools and pools of ponds and durr.

Except Marehan is taking their camels UP.

It is the greatest protected ranging land God created in the Somali desert.

It is not even a secret, it is well known, but there is absolutely nothing anyone could have done about it, because Marehan doesn't even trek OUT, they trek UP.

What shocked me beyond believe was the first time I observed it on Google earth couple years ago, that's when I started to understand the story of Marehan and his place in Somali history.

I never shared it because I didn't want to seem like I was politicizing Somali nomadic misfortune, but I am at the point where any information/knowledge censored is a crime against humanity.

Go and look through Google Earth. I am sure at least you won't waste time with pointleas trolling like this topic.

I had circled Bur Region or Buuro main outcrops even then still not completely knowing their significance as I now know.

In this topic, Elite wants to claim the name "Hawd" and so does Sky, one through coopting of colonial lines which puts Hawd in Ethiopia (and therefore "his" because he is Ethiopia amusingly) and one through implication of colonial upheaval which put him as the reference for a powerful one (and therefore his because he is the British Empire amusingly), but the salient importance is the inverse ironically enough;

-Buuro is still singularly Marehan, 80 years after official Ethiopian control with 0, absolutely 0 Marehan recognition to Ethiopia

-Buuro is where the two most singular events in the "Hawd" happened during "Guba" wherein the significance was in fact "Marehan."

1. Buuro was where the Said fled to and took refuge with Marehan to then do the battle of Gumburu between Gelaadi and Wardheer, the single worst British military defeat in East Africa

2. Buuro is also where "Rigaax" the main Isaaq antagonist in Guba was killed going not southwest to Ceel Ogaden after overrunning Makaahiil from Daroor to Warder, but instead going southeast to conquer Buuro for Isaaq but which he was to end up dying in because Buuro could never be conquered belonging to Marehan for a reason.

Buuro does not have a large name which is a reflection of the fact it is not contested and it could never be contested because of how singularly Marehan internalizes its value and defense. The entire clan will perish before losing Buuro which means anyone who gets near it will be absolutely, totally 'focking' annihilated.

Hawd, Guba, heblaayo, they are all meaningless. There is a grazing plateau desired by Somali pastoralists and within it, whatever you call it, there is a heart called Buuro which is the Emerald and there area crusted diamonds surrounding it the biggest of which are, Galaadi and Buuhoodle and Galdogob and Caabudwaaq and Balanbale and there are important silver stones surrounding them like Shilabo, Wardheer and Walaal, but in that center the green, glittering Emerald jewels hugging the center are the 11 hills outcrop called "Buuro" by the people who singularly have controlled it's equity, the people called "Rer Caabudwaaq."

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Popular Rahanwayn pundit ShantaSoomaaliya1 "I just realized Marehan has battled 'genocide' for a longtime in Ethiopia."

10:55 - 33:18 or more than 2/3 of his program was devoted to the events concerning Marehan and Liyu Police in the completely Marehan town of Fadhigaradle in Shilabo of Korahe district of Somali Region, Ethiopia;



Starting 24:57, right after making the observation that everyone else including his own group have long 'given in' and capitulated 'except' for Marehan who have refused to accept the binary choice of being second-class citizens or being ethnically cleansed---Macalinka has a surreal moment where he spaces out with a sudden epiphany:--

" IT IS GENOCIDE. MAREHAN HAS BEEN RESISTING 'GENOCIDE' FOR SO LONG!"




For 88 years and counting in fact starting exactly February 2, 1935 when Marehan, the 'clan' was claimed by Italy; but Shilabo, their clan "territory" (in which even today Marehan is the overwhelming majority of the territory) was claimed by Ethiopia.

It has been 88 years of ongoing, unyielding, unceasing attempt at "ethnic cleansing" under all political dispensations in Ethiopia since; from feudal to Marxist to Ethnic federalism and the current dispensation which has not yet legally reversed the [il]-legal underpinnings of the erasure which began 88 years ago.



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For Murax!

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