Sahal
I don’t disagree about the negatives of the siade barre regime, but hsm is right in this case even if he is being a hypocrite. We were still better off under the previous military regime mostly because it was built on foundation of syl. Even the Isaaq today after 30 years of independence are using wheelbarrows to transport patients in their hospitals.
Somalis can only blame siade barre for so long. I say this as someone who’s been fiercely critical of the previous regime in the past. Was it siade barres fault that abgal and hg massacred each other in xamar? Why didn’t aideed and ali mahdi form a unity government in xamar, it took another decade and another darood before there was another serious government in Xamar. Somalis need to be honest with each other.
USC failure is another thing. even if USC established a government it would have been rejected by Daarood and Isaaq bc the mistrust between the clans but Siyaad barre was the reason for the State collapse he said it "Qori baan ku imid qori baan uga bixi xukunka" Farmaajo said the same thing secretly "Hawiyoow adinkeey Xamar idinka dumee mataalo hanti qabiil kale hadaad qori ii qaadataan" laakin labo maalin aa lagu soo afjarey ayadoon hal guri dumin.
"hal jid ayaan magaaladaan ugu imid waxaana uga tagi sidii aan ugu imid" Siyaad barre. he was like a cancer you gonna lose some of your body if you wanna to recover from it.
Somalia was much better before him you don't need to compare it with him i believe its much better after him you have university in every village today. he didn't built shit it was built by the Italians, Soviets, China, Arabs. when he reached peace deal with the mjs who defeated from SSDF, in their meeting he called the Italian ambassador to build Boosaaso port and he sent engineers and company stright away what f-king Govt was there we were alweys beggars "bilaad wax isii"