Postby Twisted_Logic » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:28 am
Murax,
It is very ironical for you to accuse either me or SW of distorting the truth when your boy SB has been writing this distorted views for the past few days
This is what SB said:
"In the northern zone, where the Marehan and the Aulihan lived, there had never been political or administrative organization of any sort. The tribes there were as FREE AS ALL SOMALI HAD BEEN BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF THE BRITISH AND THE ITALIANS THIRTY-FIVE YEARS EARLIER"
While the truth says:
"From 1893 to 1896, Italian presence was limited to a small garrison of soldiers at LUUQ on the UPPER JUBBA River, and a few traders along the coast. The Italian outpost at Luuq had been established in 1895 to gather information on Somali trade in the region and to protect Italian interests in the Face of Ethiopian claims in the area." ( Lee Van Cassanelli)
Another lie SB told:
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"Cheifs of the Shidle, Hawadleh, and MOBILEEN Somali began to swear allegiance to the colonial power. After the SUBMISSION of these cheifs and of several WADAN chiefs, the Somali enemies of the Bimal and the Wadam tribes petitioned Carletti to move forces inland."
MY GOD, lets continue, this is on page 91, and this is a letter governor Carletti wrote to the Italian Foreign Minster:
"With naive guile they [THE SOMALI CLANS MENTIONED] seek to prick my amour propre to make me move without delay. I have a sheaf of letters in which they DO NOTHING BUT REPEAT: WHY DON'T YOU COME, YOU HAVE RIFLES? YOU HAVE CANONS, WHAT DO YOU FEAR? YOU ARE AFRAID...MUHAMMED ABDULLAH HAS FORBIDDEN YOU TO MOVE"
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But the truth says something like this:
The Wacdaan
" The Wacdaan were mainly pastoralist, with a small group turning to farming throughout the centuries for their alliances with the Geledi clan who were mainly agriculuralists. As said above, the Wacdaan were OPPOSED TO ANY COMPROMISE WITH THE FOREIGNERS. The FIERCE ANTI-FOREIGN stance was persistent in the culture of of WACDAAN and in the very Lafoole. The Place has been called Lafoole because apparently the Wacdaan DEFEATED the Gaalo Madoow, when they migrated to the Lower Shabelle around the 18th Century, hence the translation of Lafoole which is: Bones." ( Lee V Canssanelli)
Because of the Sultan of Geledi seemed hesistant to resist the Italian Expansion into Banadir Coast, the alliance was COOLED OFF. Apart from the weakening of their bonds with the Geledi, t he drought of 1890s which lead to a large population of their of wacdaan abandoning their homelands, the Italians posed the GREATEST THREAT TO THE GROUP. They were, moreover, the first inland Somalis who's territory was actually invaded by colonial soldiers at the time of Cecchi expedition.
" One of the most influential leaders among the Wacdaan was the leader of Shaykh Ahmed Haji Mahhadi. He was not Wacdaan but became the sheikh of Wacdaan. He was born in Mogadishu and hailed from the lineage of Mogadishu (Abgal). He had lived there most his life, teaching alongside such renowned Muslim Scholars as Shaykh Sufi and Shaykh Mukhdaar. Like the latter, HE FOUND COEXISTENCE IN A TOWN WHICH HOUSES INFIDALS INTOLERABLE, AND HE CHOSE TO RETIRE TO THE SMALL COASTAL ENCLAVE OF NIMOW, a little south of Mogadishu. There he set up a small jamaaca which attracted several of the local inhabitants. When Nimow was shelled by an Italian warship in retaliation for the Cecchi ambush, AHMED HAJJI feld to Day Suufi ( the heart of Wacdaan territory) where intensified his preaching against infidels. As late as 1907, the acting Italian governor considered him 'THE MOST LISTENED-TO PROPAGANDIST' in this area of Shabeelle. Even the Geledi turn to him rather their own sutan for religious consel. ( Lee V Cassanelli)
One of the Wacdaan leaders apparently influenced Ahmed Hajji Hassan was Hassan Hussain, Titular head of the largest sub-section of the Wacdaan clan, the Abubakar Moldheere. The Abubakar Moldheere WERE THE MOST NUMEROUS AND HENCE THE MOST POWERFUL SECTION OF THE WACDAAN in the late 19th Century. Hassan Hussein is remembered as one of the FIRST wacdaan to OPPOSE THE ITALIANS, WARRIORS FROM HIS LINEAGE WERE PROMINENT AMONG THE FORCES THAT ATTACKED CECCHI AT LOFOOLE. LIKE WISE, HIS LINEAGE WAS SPOKESMEN FOR THE ABUBAKAR MOLDHEERE, WHO MOST STRENUOUSLY ARGUED THE BLOCKADE OF CARAVAN ROUTES TO MOGADISHU ( Economic sanctions)" ( Lee v Cassanelli)
Now tell me who is distorting facts and who is not?
