Her delivery could have been better but the jist of her claims are correct. There have been massive displacements and atrocities inside the occupied Jubbaland. The Kenyans have been carpet bombing entire settlements. The Azanian/Ras Kiamboni have been robbing, killing and raping IDPs fleeing the fighting. Thousands of foreign fighters from Northeastern Kenya and Ethiopia have been pressed into service under the guise of being native Somalis. Recruitment is rife in Garissa for able body fighters to bolster the Kenyan proxy militias. The Kenyans have hosted their proxies inside Kenyan territory where the government pressed Kenyan Somalis to join the Azanian and Ras Kiamboni Brigades. It also violated the arms embargo numerous times but the greatest impediment to the Kenyan plan to establish a buffer zone was the poor leadership and management of their Proxies: Ahmed MAdoobe and Gaandhi that lead to the drumming @ Dhobley in September which resulted in the Proxy militias fleeing and being rescued by the KDF.
The Kenyan military have been involved militarily in Somalia through either proxies:
1. SPM Gabyo Faction - General Mohamud Chief of Staff of the Kenyan military sent large quantities of weapons, and Kenyan Somali officers of the KDF into Somalia in support of the MSB's campaign to seize Mogadishu in 1991-92.
2. Ras Kiamboni - Assisted in the rehabilitation of the former Islamist Ahmed Madoobe and equipped his fighters to harass the AS.
3. Azania - Set up training camps in Isiolo to train Kenyan Somali youth to fight for the Azanian project. These men performed poorly and were beaten back by the AS even though the Azanians had impressive numbers and assets.
After the use of the proxies did not deliver much, the KDF seized on the alleged AS incursions at the Coast to send its troops into Somalia. The mission has been hard for the Kenyans who are busy keeping the peace among its proxies and fighting a ruthless enemy.
The grand prize is Kismayo and the Kenyans when they do seize it will spend massive amounts of time, money and resources in peacekeeping its proxies while fighting AS who will revert to Mgoadishu style insurgencies. T
The Kenyan bias towards the Ogaden clan has been illustrated by its creation of proxies, recruitment of only Ogaden Kenyans to join the proxies, the press release condemning the traditional OG rival in the area, the Marexan as being AS supporters and Kenya hosting a Jubbaland conference in which only Darood clans were represented denying any political space towards the numerous native clans: Galjaceel, Badicaade, Degodie, Murule, Digil Mirifle, Biyomaal, Sheikhal, Ajuran, Bantus, Garre, etc.
We all remember when certain clan prevented the food aid from reaching mainly D/M and Jareerweyene clans in 1992', 500,000 of those fellow Somalis were starved to death. It took the entire world to intervene in order to make sure food aid reaches those communities.
We all remember A/Qasim Sallaad Hassan calling the world to intervene when he was the TNG president in 2000, and opposing them in 2007 because A/Yusuf was president.
We all remember the traditional elders of Mogadishu stating in mosques, "aryaa gaaladaan Maaa gaalo Daarood, waa gaalo Hawiye," in 2009 in reference to their welcoming of Ugandans while calling the Ethiopians "gaalo Daarood."
We all remember when one guy was the leader of UIC, he has called Jihad against the TFG and the international troops supporting it, but when the UIC were defeated by those forces, he was picked up by helicopter from those same forces at the Kenyan -Somali border. This same guy were calling for Ethiopians, AMISOM, and other foreigners to intervene when he became president in 2009.
We all know who is using AMISOM to defeat Al-Shabaab in Mogadishu, Lower Shabeele, and Middle Shabeele regions, but at the same time refusing for other clans to ally themselves with AMISOM to defeat Al-Shabaab in Lower Jubba, Middle Jubba, and Gedo. It seems "aryaa gaaladaan maaha gaalo Hawiye, waa gaalo Daarood" is at play here.
Ogaden are justified to use any foreign power to advance their agenda. Enough with "these are not their gaalos, they are our gaalos" fake slogans!