Ugas Mohamed Keyse of Marehan hosts DDSI & ENDF officials: "Time has come to enfranchise Marehan in Somali Region."

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Ugas Mohamed Keyse of Marehan hosts DDSI & ENDF officials: "Time has come to enfranchise Marehan in Somali Region."

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"The biggest problem feeding insecurity and grievance is the lack of political representation for my people in Somali Region spanning the length and breadth of territory you have just traveled through on your way to my estate here in Abudwaq. It is time to enfranchise my people in eastern Somali Region.."

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Re: Ugas Mohamed Keyse of Marehan hosts DDSI & ENDF officials: "Time has come to enfranchise Marehan in Somali Region."

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Marehan are literally 95% of the land EAST of the "road" linking Warder and Shilabo towns.

This is how far Marehan extends in the Shilabo district in an actual PROPORTIONAL Google map (the Somali Region made maps they put out INTENTIONALLY bring down the 'proportion' of 'area' of Marehan settlements). This reality is completely erased in all Somali Region, Ethiopia referencing. All. Every single one.

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In other words. Marehan are the base foundation of what is Warder, Shilabo, and Geladi territories of Somali region arbitrarily chopped up manipulatively and predatorily into multiple districts (Korahe and Doollo) and multiple woredas (Warder, Galadi, Shilabo, Lahelow-Yucub) so as to keep their land settlement erased through division, dilution, and mismanaged disparately.

The distance between the closest Ogaden/Makaahiil settlement to the "border" is roughly the same distance between the port of Zaylac or Lughaya on Gulf of Aden and the Ethiopian border with Somaliland.

So quite extraordinarily when a Makaahiil or Ogaden says "xuduuda dhaca" or that they are the "xuduud" it is like someone in Harshin or Awbarre---im Ethiopian territory----, further than Hargeisa, Borama, Arabsiyo, Gebiley, etc saying they are at the "coast."

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That is what Marehan has compromised on for 90 years since the formation of colonial lines with the first Abyssinian ccupation of Shilaabo territory which was subsequently recognized to Ethiopia.

Marehan was the "base population" of this territory, still even today settling the overwhelming majority of it yet they were labeled "Italian dependency tribe" in the 1908 Italo-Abyssinian War which meant basic political rights and equities due a people as the indigenous inhabitants, no matter how just or deserved, were "dangerous" and a "threat" to Ethiopia because, once again, their lands or equities were recognized to be "Italian" lands or equities.

And because they happened to be the overwhelming majority of the territory, the level of threat represented by the weight of their equity had to yield equal and opposite proportional counter measure for the purposes of arresting and then curtailing those equities. In other words, the more rights Marehan were due, the equal and opposite the proportional denial of rights due. So Marehan as even the majority of Shilabo had to yield Marehan as the "most" erased or "disenfranchised" in Shilabo.

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"1st Due" had to be equally and proportionally "Least Awarded."

Any wonder then a Marehan from Shilabo in Adan Low shot the bullet that started the second Ialo-Abyssinian War which contributed to the formation of WWII or another Marehan from Shilabo in Siad Barre took Somalia into the 1977 Ogaden War with Ethiopia?

Despite the injustice in continuing denial of basic political rights and equities due a people over administration of their homes and lands, Marehan is virtually still settling, living, and even thriving in the bulk of his territory minus temporary effects from the compelling burden faced from Menguste and the Derg military dictatorship in 1982 that lead to momentarily pulling back from areas near the Shabelle border with Hiiraan.

But when you hear a Makaahiil/Ogaden say or reference or ascribe anything to do with "xuduuda"---it is the most intolerable display of manipulative transgression.

Between the "border" and him is a teritory the size of Awdal or Hiiraan or Waqooyi Galbeed that is almost entirely Marehan.

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He is like a man in "Harshin," in Ethiopia, saying he is at or is the "coast" which is at Zaylac or Lughaya or Berbera.

He is not "at" the "border".


The border is "at" almost towards the "end" of Marehan
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Re: Ugas Mohamed Keyse of Marehan hosts DDSI & ENDF officials: "Time has come to enfranchise Marehan in Somali Region."

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Any wonder then a Marehan from Shilabo in Adan Low shot the bullet that started the second Italo-Abyssinian War which contributed to the formation of WWII or another Marehan from Shilabo in Siad Barre took Somalia into the 1977 Ogaden War with Ethiopia?



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title = Partitioned Africans: Ethnic Relations Across Africa's International Boundaries 1884-1984
author = Asiwaju A.I.
isbn = 9780905838915
lccn = gb84027034
url = https://books.google.com/books?id=1SByAAAAMAAJ
year = 1985
publisher = C. Hurst


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Re: Ugas Mohamed Keyse of Marehan hosts DDSI & ENDF officials: "Time has come to enfranchise Marehan in Somali Region."

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Badal Xiis, State Security Advisor to Somali region president Mustafe Cagjar "O ye men [Marehan] gathered here, you are our brothers [of Ogaden], you are our kinsmen, we are intimately and keenly aware of your grievances and the long standing political limbo that has unfortunately existed in this part of Somali Region for a very long time. President Cagjar's administration is extremely resolved to provide a conclusion to this political limbo. Security is in your interest just as it is in our interest. Let us change this story from trauma to transformation."

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