When we were Kings

[Cawar]

Check this short documentry out about Somalia....when there was government and the whole world would recognize our passports and we had something called the rule of law...well I am not nostalgic of any dictatorship and opression of innocent ppl....but man oo man we were something.



http://www.saafifilms.com/documentary.htm

[Demure]

Nice documentary, I wish someone archived all our recent history, Post Italian era through the civil war. Some of us barely had meager memories, things like this make us think; Oh we had that and that?...Anyway if you have more, please do share.

PS. The title would have been more aptly if it was, When Siad Barre was a king!

Ah I guess you gain some, you loose some. Life is a B1tch!

[Cawar]

Demure

You maybe right about the title, but i didnt want to initiate a qabil based debate, you know how things are here . Besides if you really think abt it...the majority of us in Xamar had a decent life, and at the end of the day almost every father was the king of his house...maybe Barre was their King but it was not so evident to us younger generations...maybe ppl like Qudhac or Galool could tell.

BTW...I think that site has many films/documentaries but they're sellin them.

[Demure]

Qudhac is as old as Galol? damn I thought the place was invaded only by youngsters not senoir citizens as well.

But yeah we were all kings and queens back in the day, the thing I miss most is having couple maids in the house, it's tedious looking after oneself

[Cawar]

I have been wanting to ask you...How was Xamar?? Is it still recognizable?? I heard many things in the past but nothing recent.

You did say you went there right??

[Demure]

It was heart wrenching and hope reviving at the same time walaahi. I'm glad I went, the places I thought I would recognize seemed a bit different, even our home didn't look like how I thought it would..

Anyway, I wanted to share some of the pictures I took but I don't know how to do that...Any ideas?

[Cawar]

I am sorry I aint a comp. geek ...but I am sure we will find a way from our residents.

I'd love to see those pics .


Hey Geeks need some help here ....where are they when needed...marka kalena sidii shimbaraha ay meelaha u buubooyiin.

[Demure]

Ok I will check again tomorrow or this weekend, hopefully a wiz will along by then

Night Night.

[X.Playa]

Cawar,

When We Were Kings??? I wonder how much Daarood payed for this filth they call documentary,

Bare coming to Berbera after he met Mangisto Xayla Maryam in Jabuuti in 1988 isn't something one easily can forget, Bare had agreed to cease claiming any parts of Western Somali and Mengisto agreed to boot the SNM out of its camps in western Somalia.

Bare then came to Hargaysa guarded by his red barret dogs and met with the Isaaq elders , he had 2 words, "Isaaqow waa Inoo Dagaal" and left the meeting,

And indeed it was war , Bare in his last days running to Nigeria , pleaded " Ilaah baan idinku dhaarshee somalieeyay inaga daaya rasaasta, waan ogay inaan taladii la turunr turoodee"

Only a fool will call the Beginning of His Death a kingship, you were not a king you were a crow a filthy carrion eating crow who was scavenging Somalinimo, hear the music, the click click of the kalchnikov, its the death of what once called Somalinimo or Somalia, if you were the king or the cooke then, it don't matter, we are all refugee now.

[galia]

I blame the hawiya clans 4 destroying somalia, cos when they kicked out sayyid barre from somalia they turned on eah other like a bunch of savages.

I also blame the meherans that really were the ones that benefitted from sayyid barres rule, so they kinda destroyed somalia

The the innocent clans are the isaacs and mjs

[Gamadid.]

46464 of much ado about nothing. Galia, don't you have a life abaayo?

X.palay.

Cawar maxaa u sheeganee saxib?

Demure.

I should be the first to see those pics in Somalinet

[LaDy-Qac]

Wonderful!!

One day we will have that back insha allah

[Sir-Luggoyo]

Cawar,

I recently came across a VHS tape recorded from Somali TV in Somalia with most of the old timers like Magool (AUN) Dhuulle (AUN) Kuluc and Durdur band with Ciise Daahir Qaasim (AUN) playing the organ with his wife (Dawo) enjoying her own voice, to be honest, I got goose pumps and became nostalgic, there is even Fadumo Qassim singing the traditional Bandiri wedding song at an environment worthy of a royal wedding. There was this women (I confess I don't know her) but I was told she was the heroine of the first Somali movie.....GODAMNIT was she beautiful or what?!!!! rejoicing a "Dhaanto" lyrics clad in the traditional outfit of Saddex Dhudood embroidered with Boqorkii iyo Dhaclihii, plus scenaries from the paradise resembling farms of Afgoi, Janaale and Jamaame, breathtaking scenes of the banks of the river. Man, it was three hours of blissful time.

P.S. The song you were asking about "Shinni Malableey" by Hassan Aden, you can find it in the same website you posted here. Go to Music, click Somali music, Hassan Aden Collection, click "Shiraakoonee"..................and enjoy

[Gandi]

muktar what you need is surgery brain surgery my friend your people got raped by who ?

back to the subject cawr every somali believes he is a king even when he is recieving his government support or walfar

[kambuli]

Cawar,

Thanks walaal. A friend of mine called me one time and walaahay this is what she said to me. " Na hoy cajalad baan kuusoo dhiibey, koley waad ku dul barooran eh". My friend is a lady from Hiiraan. The tape was the one when Abdiqaasim was elected.

The first time I heard Fadumo Qaasim singing the song about "Dalkaygaygow" I was all conjested as if I am sick. Then I saw Cabdiqaasim under the flag and the national anthem "Somaliyey Toosoo",
was playing,then the military marching at Tarabuunka..... markaasaa miyir iigu dambeysey

I never stop watching those videos, even though I cry alot I still watch them.

I will try to get those videos.

Why $60 though?