Postby Steeler [Crawler2] » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:41 am
it is baseless because how can you claim something thats not in your control, something in the first place you dont rightfully own, and based on original borders that were created by the british.
That's easy. On a micro scale, a lot of people have been displaced from their property during the civil war. But if they came return, they would make claim to that property even though they do not control it right now.
As for borders created by the British, most ofthe African borders are a hold over from colonial times, and those borders remain valid today.
So it is most assuredly NOT baseless. It is a point on which two well meaning people (or not well meaning) can, in fact, disagree.
Puntlanders and Somalilanders should learn to have a little more respect for each others viewpoints.
"this land belongs to the people of sool and sanaag who by the way are not majerten, and the situation in xamar is in full control not by majerten but by other somalis other than haawiye, and the african union peace keepers as well ethopia. and if somaliland thinks it can try and take advantage of that then it will have more of a problem, it will have the darood people defending its territory. hence darood is very big and not only majerten. puntland is darood region. inhabited mainly by the harti who settle in sool and sanaag."
Puntland is controlled by the Majertain, the majority of the population is Majertain, and it is not likely to get support from the rest of the Darood. So forget it. The Marehan are not going to come to your aide. And the President of Somaliland is Dulbahante, so I would not count on much help from them. No, Somaliman, the Majertain are alone.