I Just Found Out That......

[Advocatar]

Hargeesa was not save for us and we had to leave for xamar, Gani may he rest in peace and my father assigned laba xidigle and a small amount of soldiers to accompany us to xamar. We went through barbara and burco unharmed and people were respectful. Lakinse when we entered lascaanood there was a sudden relief cus waa tol. But that suddenly went out the window when we were attacked from both side by armed dhulbahante, they didnt wanna rob or take hostage, their mission was to kill everybody cus couple of nights prior to the incident they were ambushed by Issaqs and were massacred, so they were releasing their anger on us since they believed it was the government fault. there was this one lady who used her baby to protect herself from the affectionate trigger happy bullets.


Anyways the small amount of soldiers managed to keep them at distance until further helped arrived. Within a day or so, about 20 vehicle of dhulbahante army men arrived and even hundreds more came from muqdisho. Anyways they lead us safely back to xamar. only few people died out of the 10 trucks lakinse that was some real moment and I just found out about this.


idinka did you'll go through similiar stuff?


I also found new respect for abgaal.

[Warsame101]

Advo, interesting story. I also went through similar experience.

So you used to live in Hargeisa? Was your father stationed there?

Btw, why the new found respect for Abgaal?

[Advocatar]

I was born in hargeesa and my family lived there since the 80's sxb, My father was some kind of a commander, I forgot the unit lakinse his a G' wallahi (has like 6 bullet wounds to the chest--I'm gonna ask him the story behind it soon), all I know is he carried himself to the hospital.


ok right B4 we came to america I was told we stopped in muqdisho in 95. There was this abgaal family that welcomed us and we lived with them for several months in an abgaal nieghborhood. They were good people lakinse somehow we didnt fit in and while my dad was away, my older brother (at the time 15) in a masjid was approached by a kid his age and was asked for his qabiil. fortunetly he responded with a clan my dad told him to say for safety reasons. Anyways my bro followed the kid. and the kid went straight to a militia behind a bush to tell them we were safe and not darood. even the people of the masjid were involved in the plot. I believe they were habar gedir.


anyways the abgaals protected us till we departed to beled xaawo and from there we came to america.

[QansaGabeyle]

When the war broke out, ten of my abtis, moms uncles and moms cousins came to us in Daafeed and escorted us to Beled Xawo. They were armed to the teeth and anyone who would get in our way would get it badly. They had with them several qooqan trucks with baroon and shilke mounted on them. My father was at the time recovering from a terrible car accident he had been in just outside kismaayo so he could not help us leave for dhulkeena. His driver died and several others including my dad were badly wounded.

[Luq_Ganane]

Advo, did the Abgal family you were staying with know you guys were Marehan, and if so were they like family friends or something? I'm sure they just couldn't be a random family.

[Warsame101]

Damn, So most of you guys went to Gedo. I went to CaabudWaaq, but back then, you had to cross Somali Galbeed and enter CaabudWaaq from the rear. I remember there were some reports that the USC were heading to CaabudWaaq, so everyone, including my maternal grandmother pulled out their AK47 and dug trenches, only to found out that it was false news

I had a similiar experience in Xamar too. When we returned to Xamar, we stayed with our abtis and used a different non-Daarood name as our cover.

I remember when a massive army headed by a Reer Nuur Diini Major General was approaching the city and everybody (the civilians) were warned to evacuate the city before he enters the city.

Advo, you went all the way from Waqooyiga to Xamar and then back to Gedo. Must have been a long-ass trip

Qansa, were you living in Xamar or Kismaayo? I remember when almost everyone headed to Kismaayo. I swear, that place was so over-crowded. Close to a million people were staying there.

[Luq_Ganane]

Warsame, didn't a lot of other displaced Darood come to Cabudwaq and Balanbale? I've read somewhere a lot of Lelkasse, Majerten and other Daroods came to this city when the USC was coming to Mudug. As for claiming another Qabil in Xamar, would they just take your word for it? , there wasn't any abtiris, or somebody vouching for you etc. to verify your HG,Abgal,Murarsade etc.? Also if I'm not mistaken the SNF headquarters were in Kismayo right?

Excuse all the questions guys as I wasn't there, lakin this sounds fascinating the 'Qax' stories. I was a kid in the States at the time, but I remember going to all the emergency 'Shirs' Marehan reer VA used to go to have in these hotels to raise money for SNF. At least the money was put to good use

[Jeffrey Dahmer]

[quote="Luq_Ganane"]Warsame, didn't a lot of other displaced Darood come to Cabudwaq and Balanbale? I've read somewhere a lot of Lelkasse, Majerten and other Daroods came to this city when the USC was coming to Mudug. As for claiming another Qabil in Xamar, would they just take your word for it? :lol: , there wasn't any abtiris, or somebody vouching for you etc. to verify your HG,Abgal,Murarsade etc.? Also if I'm not mistaken the SNF headquarters were in Kismayo right?

Excuse all the questions guys as I wasn't there, lakin this sounds fascinating the 'Qax' stories. I was a kid in the States at the time, but I remember going to all the emergency 'Shirs' Marehan reer VA used to go to have in these hotels to raise money for SNF. At least the money was put to good use :up:[/quote]

Yeah sxb, CaabudWaaq was packed with refugees at the time, but most of them went to Kismaayo. Practically most Mareexaans headed to Kismaayo first. I encountered the USC twice, once in Barawe and once again when we traveled through Gedo (via Ceelwaaq?). The USC targeted Mareexaan noncombatants first, and briefly later targeted every Daarood except Mareexaan. This is why every Daarood claimed Mareexaan just to get out of the city.

abtirsiino was very important sxb, if you didn't knew, you were basically fucked. Another factor was the dialect, the USC thought every Isaaq must have the af-woqooyi accent, this is why many Warsangelis and Dhulbahantes living in Xamar claimed Isaaq identity to escape.

My Isaaq uncle (RH) spoke with the af-mudug dialect, so one time, he and his uncles were stopped by some crazy Mooryaans inquiring about his clan. He said he was Isaaq but they didn't believe him cause of his dialect so as they were aiming at his head, his uncles (who had thick af-woqooyi dialelect) intervened and testified that he was Isaaq.

[QansaGabeyle]

"Qansa, were you living in Xamar or Kismaayo?"

No I was living in Yaaq Bariweyne. The town was mostly marexaan except for few majerteens who were surprisingly working with the USC. They probably all got killed thinking they were safe. lol Although the town itself was majority marexaan, it was surrounded by a lot of gaaljecel and garre reer miyi ah. At the time we did not even know these guys supported the USC. But our biggest worry was not the USC but how we would get through the cagdheer idiot Cumar Jees and the stupid eelaay beggers in Baydhabo. Luckily my abtis and my moms uncles(younger than my mom lol) came for us.

[Jeffrey Dahmer]

[quote="QansaGabeyle"]"Qansa, were you living in Xamar or Kismaayo?"

No I was living in Yaaq Bariweyne. The town was mostly marexaan except for few majerteens who were surprisingly working with the USC. They probably all got killed thinking they were safe. lol Although the town itself was majority marexaan, it was surrounded by a lot of gaaljecel and garre reer miyi ah. At the time we did not even know these guys supported the USC. But our biggest worry was not the USC but how we would get through the cagdheer idiot Cumar Jees and the stupid eelaay beggers in Baydhabo. Luckily my abtis and my moms uncles(younger than my mom lol) came for us.[/quote]

lol @ Yaaq Bariweyne, I thought you was from Kismaayo?

[QansaGabeyle]

We moved around alot.

[Luq_Ganane]

Qansa have you been to Luuq? Tell me about the city if you have.

[QansaGabeyle]

Unfortunately I have not been to Luuq. We did not head that way. But from what I know, Luuq is a really old city, probably one of the oldest somali cities. Luuq, during the time of Siyaad Barre had a large arab and indian community. Shocking right. Luuq proper is also an Island, being surrounded by the Jubba river. Other than that, I can't tell you much.

[Luq_Ganane]

I hear you, lol. Isn't there a Celidheere settlement close to it though, called 'baradi' or 'bardai' or something like that? I suspected you've been there, lol.


Anyways tell me about Baardhere, lol.

[Jeffrey Dahmer]

[quote="QansaGabeyle"]Unfortunately I have not been to Luuq. We did not head that way. But from what I know, Luuq is a really old city, probably one of the oldest somali cities. Luuq, during the time of Siyaad Barre had a large arab and indian community. Shocking right. Luuq proper is also an Island, being surrounded by the Jubba river. Other than that, I can't tell you much.[/quote]

This is true, being one of the oldest cities in Somalia, founded by Arabs a couple of centuries it has witnessed alot. It used to be the most important town in Jubbaland (more important than Kismaayo) but has been bombed to the ground several times.