Brave Somalis volunteer to fight ethiopia 1978

[Waachis]

this just increased my respect for somalis.
in 1978, as the yemeni-cuban-ethio coalition got closer to the border with somalia, siad barre put out a call to his people to fight..
and this is the result....

!!!!

[AwRastaale]

They all left their tanks, trucks, shoes and shorts in the Ogaden desert.

Ethiopia won a victorious war and Somalia never recovered from it to this day.

It was nothing for Ethiopia. It was just that initially it was busy fighting EPLF and TPLF in Eritrea and Tigray.

Somalia drove into an empty border but once Ethiopia moved some of its army from Tigray and Eritrea, Somalia left everything in the Ogaden desert.

Ethiopia takdem.

[balwarama]

This guy is an Ethiopian smart ass! He even duped me in to believing he is Isaak for so long

[Waachis]

Lol even if Ethiopia won, the point is these Somalis showed bravery, regardless of the massive odds. That deserves respect.

[Khalid Ali]

Waachis we had a horrible general his name was siyad barre he was the worste military leader he had no respect for oromo he started calling them somali abo.
He wanted to steal oromo lands. Afranqallo arsi.

He was a very bad diplomat he subcotracted our foreign policy to Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Very bad move he put all his eggs in one basket trusting the Soviets.

Ask us isaaqs. We were the foreign minister Omar carte qaalib. Omar carte was more Arab than the Arabs spoke fluently Arabic even poetry every Arabic dialect he spoke. He lives in Saudi Arabia now.


Any way in that war my fathers.younger brother fought my grandfather.fought. my grandmother first cousin. The current president of somaliland was air force pilot he fought. It was a dissaster.

[Advo]

This guy is an Ethiopian smart ass! He even duped me in to believing he is Isaak for so long

Even The most die hard issaq extremist would never praise the habasha like he does. Issaqs fought and died like the rest of the Somali people during the struggle. But in his world, xabashi comes first.
When a xabashi gets sick..he says “was the matter boss, is we sick?”.

brother MalcomX said it best, the house nigga mentality;

Back to the topic, my old man and his little brother fought in that liberation war and his brother didn’t come home. May Allah reward the fallen heroes of ‘77.

[AwRastaale]

As a kid growing up in eastern Ethiopia in the late 1989s-1991, I used to see all this liter across the vast land including tanks, truck tyres (huge ones), shells, bullet casings, rockets, boots not knowing there was a war over decade ago.

When I grew older I realised we chased Somalia hard never to be seen again.

Barre paid very heavy price. He was trying to free the useless Cagdheer.

Today they accepted their faith and are willing to kill their mothers in the name of “nabadiid”, “ubbo”.

I like the outcome.

[AwRastaale]

Forget the Ogaden desert who are killing their mothers for our holy flag, this is Somalia today.

[jakeeverton1]

In the 77 war somalia was facing three military the Ethiopians. The Cubans. The Soviets. Three against one because Somalian army pushed the Ethiopian army all the way back to adis Ababa and soviets saw that as Somalian expansion.
We somalis lost that war because of siad bare greed to expan somalia beyond its borders otherwise ogaden would be part of somalia today. There's nothing wrong with losing war when you face three army.
IN my mind the somalis of the 1977 were true heroes

[luis1]

Jakkerton:

There's nothing wrong with losing war when you face three army

Somalia was defeated by Cuba, South Yemen and Ethiopia troops.

Soviets only sent advisers to Ethiopia.