Update! Assange Free Thank YHWH! Assange Update! He Lives! 10/21/2024–Trump had the chance to pardon Julian Assange founder of Wikileaks and global humanitarian—was assassinated in Spain during court hearings. Whether true, Assange is a true humanitarian. Truth since word came of his passing reveal huge censorship and erosion of life on earth for all beings and animals and nature and elements because the NWO war lords are merciless evil entities mainly middle aged and old white men and few white women. The Pentagon trained warrior commander of this criminal genocide was no less than US Somalian refugee Representative Ilhan Omar’s Pentagon trained father, who is said to have died in 2021 of Covid. Omar’s commando dad killed almost 500,000 Somalian men, women, and children in the Isaaq Genocide War, then was knowingly admitted into America with changed name. The Isaaq Genocide is portrayed by Wikipedia as a justification of war but it is a lie to continue with war crimes that if not stopped will continue to eradicate innocent people.
⭐⭐📚🏮🔆📚🏮🔆📚🏮🔆📚🏮
Please be patient for every post to upload it’s worth the wait. Thank you. 𝒜 𝒫𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝓇 𝐻𝑜𝓅𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒟𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐵𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝐵𝑒𝒶𝓊𝓉𝒾𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝓀𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒥𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓃𝒶𝓁𝓈 𝐼𝓃 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒲𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹 ~ 𝐼𝓃𝒸𝓁𝓊𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝐿𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝑀𝒾𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓁𝑒𝓈 All books and journals by Laurel Sobol are available online at Barns and Noble bn.com https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/Laurel%20Sobol
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
BeCause your body mind and soul deserve the best organic Lifestyle Today!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚🏮🔆📚🏮🔆📚🏮🔆📚🏮
NWO: THINGS THAT WILL REVOLVE AROUND EACH OTHER AND CAN BE COUNTERED BY OPPOSITE ENFORCEMENTS THAT ARE GOOD
1. This category: Purchase of humans and their movements worldwide through closed door deals and political weaponization to disrupt and take down YHWU and his people (illegal immigration)
2. This category: Strategic eradication of swaths of land, people, animals, nature -manufacturing of disasters especially fire and weather no holds barred (antigravity, drone, laser, observatories and satellites)
3. This category: Holding onto NWO USAID power hold by destroying all American values and cores and one nation under YHWH (God of Yeshua, who is Jesus)
4. This is a category: Opposition to NWO and a choice to celebrate YHWH
🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
Update! Assange Free Thank YHWH! Assange Update! He Lives! 10/21/2024–Trump had the chance to pardon Julian Assange founder of Wikileaks and global humanitarian—was assassinated in Spain during court hearings. Whether true, Assange is a true humanitarian. Truth since word came of his passing reveal huge censorship and erosion of life on earth for all beings and animals and nature and elements because the NWO war lords are merciless evil entities mainly middle aged and old white men and few white women. The Pentagon trained warrior commander of this criminal genocide was no less than US Somalian refugee Representative Ilhan Omar’s Pentagon trained father, who is said to have died in 2021 of Covid. Omar’s commando dad killed almost 500,000 Somalian men, women, and children in the Isaaq Genocide War, then was knowingly admitted into America with changed name. The Isaaq Genocide is portrayed by Wikipedia as a justification of war but it is a lie to continue with war crimes that if not stopped will continue to eradicate innocent people.🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵August 29, 2021 - News EditorsObama ordered FBI, CDC to implement globalist ‘health security agenda’ shortly before leaving officeHOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE REPORT MINORITY STAFF LEAD REPUBLICAN MICHAEL T. MCCAUL ONE HUNDRED SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
HILL.TV INTERNATIONAL August 02, 2021 - 12:01 AM EDT GOP report on COVID-19 origins homes in on lab leak theory BY LAURA KELLY 5,177 TWEET SHARE MORE A House Republican lawmaker’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19 is raising concerns that the pandemic outbreak stemmed from a genetically modified virus that leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, located in the Chinese city where the virus was first detected in December 2019. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released on Monday a third installment in his investigation into the origins of the virus and the missteps by China in alerting the world to the risks of the pandemic.Rand Paul: "Social Security Had 6.6M Listed At Over 112 Years Of Age Sti...**Short and Sweet Podcast
There never will be a good way to do bad things.
All of what is proven as fact is primarily based on false perceptions and data and leaves facts and truth to be called malicious The SPARS Pandemic 2025–2028: nspiracy news. Truth has always been hard if not impossible to find since the beginning of time.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/KqUjuIzJsIsK/
🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
The genome 🧬 chromosome 20Connection now 2019-2021 in progress -
The SPARS Pandemic 2025–2028:
🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
🆘🆘🆘False Flag Smoke Screen Debt Relief Bill For Severely Disabled People $6 Billion Reimbursement—Feinstein And Biden to Reassign Assets Back To Warfare Global Demolition and of Infrastructure Rebuild To Re-Destroy Zero Accountability! Double Edge Sword COVID-19 Vaccination is Mandates Will Increasingly Neutralize Youths And Young Adults Into Chronically Sickly Populations! Win Win Situation Pentagon Depopulation Unit Thrilled To Death!
Obama ordered FBI, CDC to implement globalist ‘health security agenda’ shortly before leaving office
🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
Never mind that federal bureaucracy has borrowed billions off of Social Security since it was overflowing with funds that were unprecedented and so huge there was absolutely no way to fail…Until borrowing off and diverting funds off Social Security literally drained it to what it is today! What the same people did to Social Security they have done to Americans—drained us dry by the absurdity of their actions with zero accountability and high fraud on all counts of treachery and debauchery! The Food Bubble is the tip of the iceberg— allowing those same war lord financial subsidized buffering tactics that never allow for most corporate businesses and stockholder companies to fail at the expense of all Americans having to foot the bills! Same thing with commodity and especially grain and food futures that set prices on these years prior to grains ever being planted in the ground. Add the Manmade Apocalyptic Star Geo Weather and disease dispersal warfare with solar plasma and UFO technology, and other factors into the equation brings the question to mind, why? Control the weather, control the food, control the people.
🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
The Pentagon trained warrior commander of this criminal genocide was no less than US Somalian refugee Representative Ilhan Omar’s Pentagon trained father, who is said to have died in 2021 of Covid. Omar’s commando dad killed almost 500,000 Somalian men, women, and children in the Isaaq Genocide War, then was knowingly admitted into America with changed name. The Isaaq Genocide is portrayed by Wikipedia as a justification of war but it is a lie to continue with war crimes that if not stopped will continue to eradicate innocent people.
Isaaq genocide
The Isaaq genocide (Somali: Xasuuqii beesha Isaaq, Arabic: الإبادة الجماعية لقبيلة إسحاق),[15][16]or Hargeisa holocaust[17] was the systematic, state-sponsored massacre of Isaaq civilians between 1987 and 1989 by the Somali Democratic Republic under the dictatorship of Siad Barre during the Somaliland War of Independence.[18][19] The number of civilian deaths in this massacre is estimated to be between 50,000-100,000 according to various sources,[1][9][20] whilst local reports estimate the total civilian deaths to be upwards of 200,000 Isaaq civilians.[21] This genocide also included the levelling and complete destruction of the second and third largest cities in the Somali Republic, Hargeisa (which was 90 percent destroyed)[22] and Burao (70 per cent destroyed) respectively,[23] and had caused up to 500,000[24][25] Somalis (primarily of the Isaaq clan)[26] to flee their land and cross the border to Hartasheikh in Ethiopia as refugees, in what was described as "one of the fastest and largest forced movements of people recorded in Africa",[24] and resulted in the creation of the world's largest refugee camp then (1988),[27] with another 400,000 being displaced.[28][29][30] The scale of destruction led to Hargeisa being known as the 'Dresden of Africa'.[24] The killings happened during the Somali Civil War and have been referred to as a "forgotten genocide".
In the countryside the persecution of Isaaq included the creation of a mechanised section of the Somali Armed Forces called Dabar Goynta Isaaqa (The Isaaq Exterminators) consisting entirely of non-Isaaqs (mainly Ogaden),[31] [32] this unit conducted a "systematic pattern of attacks against unarmed, civilian villages, watering points and grazing areas of northern Somalia [Somaliland], killing many of their residents and forcing survivors to flee for safety to remote areas", this resulted in entire villages being depopulated and towns getting plundered.[33][34] Rape was also used as a weapon against Isaaqs.[35] Human Rights Watch states that this unit along with other branches of the military were responsible for terrorising Isaaq nomads in the countryside.[36]Dabar Goynta Isaaqa would later turn into a system of governance where local officials would put the most hard-line policies into effect against the local Isaaq population.[37]
The Somali government also planted one million land mines within Isaaq territory.[38]
In 2001, the United Nations commissioned an investigation on past human rights violations in Somalia,[18] specifically to find out if "crimes of international jurisdiction (i.e. war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide) had been perpetrated during the country's civil war". The investigation was commissioned jointly by the United Nations Co-ordination Unit (UNCU) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The investigation concluded with a report confirming the crime of genocide to have taken place against the Isaaqs in Somalia. United Nations investigator, Chris Mburu, stated:
Based on the totality of evidence collected in Somaliland and elsewhere both during and after his mission, the consultant firmly believes that the crime of genocide was conceived, planned and perpetrated by the Somali Government against the Isaaq people of northern Somalia between 1987 and 1989.[39]
Background
Prelude
Ethio-Somali War
Successive Somali governments had continually supported the cause of Somali irredentism and the concept of 'Greater Somalia', a powerful sentiment many Somalis carried, as a core goal of the state. This particularly had strong support from the Isaaq clan who notably sent many volunteers, especially in 1976 as they joined WSLF guerrilla insurgencies and sent many volunteers a year before the war took place. Another factor behind the strong support from the Isaaq was the fact that the border that was drawn between Ethiopia and Somalia cut off important grazing grounds for Isaaq tribesmen. Barre along with the Supreme Revolutionary Council, to entrench their rule and in an attempt to regain the Somali Region of Ethiopia, launched a war against Ethiopia in 1977, this war was referred to in Somalia as 'The War for Western Somalia'.[51] The Soviet Union, which at the time was allied to both Somalia and Ethiopia turned against Barre,[52]and (with their allies) provided enough support to the Ethiopian army to defeat the Somali forces and force a withdrawal from the Somali region of Ethiopia.[53]
Displacement of Isaaq and arming of refugees
All of Somalia felt the impact of the Ogaden War defeat, however the northern region (where Isaaqs live) experienced the majority of the physical and human destruction due to its geographical proximity to the fighting.[54]Somalia's defeat in the Ethio-Somali Warcaused an influx of Ethiopian refugees (mostly ethnic Somalis and some Oromo)[55] across the border to Somalia. By 1979, official figures reported 1.3 million refugees in Somalia, more than half of them were settled in Isaaq lands in the north.[52] This has caused great deal of burden on both the local Isaaqs and state apparatus, especially coming off a costly war with Ethiopia, Somali studies scholar I. M. Lewis noted that "the stark fact remained that the economy of the country simply did not possess the resources to absorb so many uprooted people."[56]
The presence of such a large number of refugees, especially when Somalia's total population at the time was 4.1 million (UN estimates[57]) meant that virtually one out of every four people in Somalia was a refugee.[58]The Barre regime exploited the presence of such a large number of refugees as means of seeking foreign aid,[59] as well as a vehicle to displacing those deemed hostile to the state, notably the Isaaqs, Human Rights Watch noted that:
"Northerners [Isaaqs] were dismissed from and not allowed to work in government offices dealing with refugee affairs, so that they would not discover the truth about the government's policies. Instead refugees, registered with UNHCR were given jobs in the offices dealing with refugee matters."[60]
As the state became increasingly reliant on international aid, aid resources allocated for the refugees caused further resentment from the local Isaaq residents, especially as they felt no effort was made on the government's part to compensate them for bearing the burden of the war.[54] Furthermore, Barre heavily favoured the Ogaden refugees, who belonged to the same clan (Darod) as him. Due to these ties, the Ogaden refugees enjoyed preferential access to "social services, business licenses and even government posts."[54] As expressed animosity and discontent in the north grew, Barre armed the Ogaden refugees, and in doing so created an irregular army operating inside Isaaq territories. The regime's use of armed refugees against local Isaaq populations in the north is also referenced in an Africa Watch report:
"[M]any Ogadeni refugees were recruited into the WSLF. The WSLF was ostensibly being trained to fight Ethiopia to regain the Ogaden [Western Somalia], but, in fact, terrorized the Isaak [Isaaq] civilian population living in the border region, which came to fear them more than the Ethiopian army. Killings, rape and looting became common."[60]
Barre was essentially ensuring the loyalty of the Ogaden refugees through continued preferential treatment and protection at the expense of the local Isaaq who were not only bypassed for economic, social and political advancement but also forcefully suppressed by both the Somali Armed Forces and the Ogaden refugee militias.[54]
The settlement of Ogaden refugees in Isaaq territory, and the arming of these groups (which effectively created a foreign army in the north[61]), further antagonised local Isaaq population. The armed Ogaden refugees, together with members of the Marehan and Dhulbahanta soldiers (whom were provoked and encouraged by the Barre regime) started a campaign of terror against the local Isaaqs[62]as they raped women, murdered unarmed civilians, and prevented families from conducting proper burials. Barre ignored Isaaq complaints throughout the 1980s,[61] this along with Barre's repression of criticism or discussions of the widespread atrocities in the north[62] had the effect of turning the long-standing Isaaq disaffection into open opposition.
Creation of refugee Ogaden militia
The government started a program of creating paramilitary groups among the Ogaden refugees as well as conscripting them into the national army, it also encouraged the creation of armed militia groups among members of the Darod (the clan of Siad Barre).[63] The Somali Army managed the training of both groups, and costs incurred including any expenditure for their arms and equipment, radio communications and fuel came from the army's budget.
One of the militias formed by the Ogaden refugees was the WSLF, officially created to fight Ethiopia and "reclaim ethnic Somali territory" in Ethiopia[64] but it was used primarily against local Isaaq civilians and nomads.[64] A Human Rights Watch's Africa Watch report states "The WSLF was ostensibly being trained to fight Ethiopia to regain the Ogaden, but, in fact, terrorized the Isaak civilian population living in the border region, which came to fear them more than the Ethiopian army. Killing, rape and looting became common."[63]
As for the looting, the Ogaden refugees from Ethiopia ransacked homes that were vacated by Isaaq civilians out of clan hatred. The Isaaqs entrepreneurial disposition was also a factor of the large-scale looting, which the Ogadenis saw as 'undeserved':
In northern Somalia, the Isaaq clans confronted a massive influx of Ogadeni refugees from eastern Ethiopia whom Siyad encouraged to loot property, attack people, and destabilize cities. An instrument of oppression, the Ogadenis and the regular Somali army were viewed as alien forces sent to oppress the Isaaq. Clan animosity intersected with class hatred as rural Ogadeni clansmen harassed Isaaq entrepreneurs with a visceral hatred, convinced that their wealth and urban commodities were undeserved. The Isaaq tell hilarious, but pathetic stories about Ogadenis who stole modern household appliances from homes in Hargeisa, Borama and Burao, then retreated with their “trophies” to use them in the remote pasture lands devoid of electricity.[65]
As the WSLF, supported by the Barre regime, continued to attack and commit atrocities against the Isaaq, a delegation was sent to meet President Barre in 1979 to request making a stop to WSLF abuses. In spite of promises made to the Isaaq elders the violence against civilians and nomads by WSLF continued.[63]
The continued abuse of WSLF and the government's indifference to the suffering of Isaaq civilians and nomads prompted many Isaaq army officers to desert the army with a view to creating their own armed movement to fight Ethiopia, one that would also intimidate the WSLF and discourage further violence against Isaaq civilians.[63] Their new movement, supported and financed by Isaaqs,[63] was named Afraad (the fourth unit) and became operational in 1979.[66][67] The Isaaq movement of Afraad immediately came into conflict with the Ogaden clan's faction of WSLF in the form of a number of bloody encounters between the two groups. Afraad's objective was to push the WSLF out of their strongholds (Isaaq territory) whereas the WSLF responded by retaliating further against Isaaq civilians living in the border region.[63]
The situation was further exacerbated by the appointment of Mohamed Hashi Gani, a cousin of President Siad Barre and fellow MarehanDarod, as the military commander of the northern regions with headquarters in Hargeisa in 1980.[68] Gani's rule was especially harsh against Isaaq, he removed them from all key economic positions, seized their properties and placed the northern regions under emergency laws.[68] He also ordered the transfer of Afraad away from the border region, giving the WSLF complete control of the border region, thus leaving Isaaq nomads in the area without any protection against WSLF violence.
A United Nations inspection team that visited the area in 1988 reported that the Ethiopian refugees (Ogaden) were carrying weapons supplied by the Somali Army. The UN team reported that, with the Somali Army's encouragement, the Ogadeni refugees carried out extensive looting in several northern towns.[69]
Isaaq uprising
By early 1978 the Barre regime had full control of the Somali state's economic apparatus, including large amounts of foreign aid which were deployed "using selective redistribution to ensure loyalty to the regime".[54] The Barre regime's oppressive policies against the Isaaq continued when in 1981, the Barre regime declared economic warfare on Somalis from the northwest and specifically the Isaaq.[70]This was a major cause of the eventual fall of the Barre regime in 1991. It led a group of Isaaq businesspeople, students, former civil servants and former politicians who lived in the United Kingdom[54][71] to found the Somali National Movement in London in April 1981. Initially, the aim of the various groups that merged to create the SNM was not to create an armed liberation front, but rather these groups formed as a direct response to the harsh policies enacted by the Barre regime against the Isaaqs.[54] However, the official position changed following the meeting of the newly formed SNM Congress in October 1981 to one of liberation "with the expressed aim of ridding Somalia of Barre and instituting a democratic government in Somalia that would be inclusive of and based on the clan system".[54]Ideologically, the SNM was a Western-leaning movement and was described as "one of the most democratic movements in the Horn of Africa".[72]
A Human Rights Watch testimony before the United States Congress' Africa Subcommittee on 14 July 1988 stated that the actions of the Barre government have "created a level of violence unprecedented in scope and duration in Somalia".[73] The testimony of Aryeh Neier(co-founder of HRW) explains the context in which the SNM was formed:
Since 1981, with the formation of the SNM, northern Somalia has seen the worst atrocities. Serious human right violations, including extra-judicial executions of unarmed civilians, detentions without trial, unfair trials, torture, rape, looting and extortion, have been a prominent feature of life in the towns and countryside in the northern region since 1981. In order to deprive the SNM of a civilian base of support in their area of operation, those living in rural areas between Hargeisa and the Ethiopian border have suffered particularly brutal treatment. A scorched earth policy that involved the burning of farms, the killing of livestock, the destruction of water-storage tanks and the deliberate poisoning of wells, has been pursued actively by the military. The principal towns have been subjected to a curfew for several years; arbitrary restrictions on the extension of the curfew have facilitated extortion by soldiers and curfew patrols. Internal travel is controlled through military checkpoints .... The existence of the SNM has provided a pretext for President Barre and his military deputies in the north to wage a war against peaceful citizens and to enable them to consolidate their control of the country by terrorizing anyone who is suspected of not being wholeheartedly pro-government. Years of sustained state violence have created a serious level of political unrest in the region.
The atmosphere of lawlessness has enabled soldiers to harass civilians for the purposes of extortion. Many Somalis have reported that military and security officers only respond to inquiries by detainees' relatives with promises to secure their release in exchange for cash payments. Civilians living in Buroaand Hargeisa have frequently been forbidden to hold funerals for relatives shot dead by the military and curfew patrols until they have paid a ransom. Rape, of young and older women, is routine. They will only be released from detention centers, even after being raped, if the family pays a ransom. No soldier or member of the security forces has ever been disciplined or prosecuted for abuses, which highlights the general lack of accountability.[73]
By 1982 the SNM transferred their headquarters to Dire Dawa in Ethiopia,[74] as both Somalia and Ethiopia at the time offered safe havens of operation for resistance groups against each other. From there the SNM successfully launched a guerrilla war against the Barre regime through incursions and hit and run operations on army positions within Isaaq territories before returning to Ethiopia.[54] The SNM continued this pattern of attacks from 1982 and throughout the 1980s, at a time the Ogaden Somalis (some of whom were recruited refugees) made up the bulk of Barre's armed forces accused of committing acts of genocide against the Isaaq people of the north.[75] It was clear then that the Barre regime had labelled the entire Isaaq population as enemy of the state.[76] In order to weaken support for the SNM within the Isaaqs, the government enacted a policy of systematic use of large-scale violence against the local Isaaq population. A report by Africa Watch stated that the policy was "the outcome of a specific conception of how the war against the insurgents should be fought," with the logic being to "punish civilians for their presumed support for the SNM attacks and to discourage them from further assistance".[20]
In addition to state-sponsored violence, other means of crushing the Isaaq uprising included the government's continuation of its policy of political repression and harsh economic measures, this included withholding international food aid donations to the Isaaq.[77] This was especially harsh as food aid accounted for nearly half of all food consumption in Somalia in the 1980s.[78]
Planning and preparation
Letter of Death
In January 1986, Barre's son-in-law and viceroy in the north General Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan, who was Barre's bodyguard before he married his daughter[79] reportedly told Isaaq nomads at a waterhole "if you Isaaqs resist, we will destroy your towns, and you will inherit only ashes".[10]
General Morgan (later to be known as the Butcher of Hargeisa)[80] was also responsible for the policy letter written to his father-in-law during his time as the military governor of the north,[81] this letter came to be known as 'The Letter of Death',[82][83] in which he "proposed the foundations for a scorched-earth policy to get rid of 'anti-Somali germs'".[10]
The policy letter (also known as the Morgan Report)[84] was officially a top secret report to the president on "implemented and recommended measures" for a "final solution" to Somalia's "Isaaq problem".[85] Morgan writes that the Isaaq people must be "subjected to a campaign of obliteration" in order to prevent the Isaaq from "rais[ing] their heads again". He continued: "Today, we possess the right remedy for the virus in the [body of the] Somali State." Some of the "remedies" he discussed included: "Balancing the well-to-do to eliminate the concentration of wealth [in the hands of Isaaq]."[86] In addition, he called for "the reconstruction of the Local Council [in Isaaq settlements] in such a way as to balance its present membership which is exclusively from a particular people [the Isaaq]; as well as the dilution of the school population with an infusion of [Ogaden] children from the Refugee Camps in the vicinity of Hargeisa".[87]
More extreme recommendations included: "Rendering uninhabitable the territory between the army and the enemy, which can be done by destroying the water tanks and the villages lying across the territory used by them for infiltration"; and "removing from the membership of the armed forces and civil service all those who are open to suspicion of aiding the enemy – especially those holding sensitive posts".[85]
In discussing the unusually frank tone of the report, Hassan Abdi Madar states:
"The report is addressed to the President of the SDR, the Minister of Defence, and Minister of Interior. The latter, Major-General Ahmed Suleiman Abdalla is also a son-in-law of the President, and Third Deputy Prime Minister. Since President Barre is also the Minister of Defence -- the previous holder of that portfolio, General Mohammad Ali Samatar, having been promoted Prime Minister on January 30, 1987 -- the report is seemingly confined to family members. This would explain its extreme frankness in specifying certain clans as targets for implemented and recommended punitive action."[88][self-published source]
Other aims of the policy included arming other clans in the region[89] and encouraging them to fight the dominant Isaaq:
"Since it has become evident that the Isaaq were, by act and intent, with the SNM; and since we could not see them giving up the line they have pursued so deceptively for some time; and in order to forestall them; we arranged for the other inhabitants of the North continuous meetings and a mobilization campaign designed to rouse them to action and to raise their level of awareness. This was intended to strengthen their unity and to surround Somali unity with a defensive wall. Among those inhabitants are: the Awdal people, the various sections of Western Somalis [including Ogaden refugees], the Las Qorey people, and the Daami people, etc. There is no doubt that the unity of these people will restore the balance of the scales which are now tipped in favour of the Isaaq. If they attack their tasks energetically, their unity will also undoubtedly humble those who arrogantly maintain that they own the North when the reality is otherwise."[90]
Extrajudicial executions
The system of indiscriminate killings employed by the government following SNM offensives had a galvanising effect on opposition to the government among both Isaaq nomads and city-dwellers.[91] The military was operating under the assumption that if the SNM was active in a particular area, local residents must be supporters of the rebels. According to Human Rights Watch's Africa Watch, hundreds of Isaaqs have been executed and subjected to other reprisals on the basis of such suspicions.
These killings started after the SNM escalated its incursions into the Isaaq majority cities in the north.[91] On every encounter between the SNM and government forces, "the army would conduct a sweep of the area where the incident occurred. Massacres followed, as did the killing of livestock, the use of landmines to blow up reservoirs, the burning of huts, arrests and detentions. The entire population in the area was regarded as 'the enemy'."
The following are a selection of the numerous episodes of extrajudicial executions of Isaaq civilians collected by Human Rights Watch's Africa Watch:
Genocide
Targeting of other groups
The Isaaq clan was not the only target of violence. Many other Somali communities, such as the Umar Mahmud sub-lineage of Majeerteen also became the victims of the violence and war. A US Country Study handbook describes the Barre regime retaliation against the Umar Mahmud following a failed coup attempt in 1978 which resulted in 2,000 Umar Mahmuud civilians dying in Mudug.[183] According to Rebecca Richards, the violence in the north and northwest was disproportionate but affected many communities, particularly Isaaq.[184] The shelling, aerial bombing and associated mass deaths in many communities particularly targeted the members of the Isaaq clan, states Richards, and this systematic state violence was linked to the belief that these groups were obtaining assistance from the Ethiopian government. The harsh reprisals, widespread bombing and burning of villages followed every time there was an attack by SNM believed to be hiding in Ethiopia.[184]
Taisier M. Ali states that Barre assuaged the Majerteen, and targeted other groups like the Hawiye. According to Ali, "with funds and clan appeals, he [Barre] was able to entice the bulk of SSDF fighters to return from Ethiopia and participate in his genocidal wars against the Isaq in the north and later against the Hawiye in the South, including Mogadisho".[185]
According to some observers such as the International Crisis Group, while the violence under Barre affected many communities in Somalia, "no other Somali community faced such sustained and intense state-sponsored violence" as the Isaaq.[186] African historian, Lidwien Kapteijns in discussing the targeting of Isaaq people as a distinct group in relation to other groups also targeted by the Barre government states:
Collective clan-based violence against civilians always represents a violation of human rights. However, when its goal is to exterminate and expel large numbers of people based on their group identity alone, it becomes clan cleansing. No one has suggested this term for the collective brutalization of the people of Mudug [Majerteen]. However, for the Northwest [Isaaq], this and even stronger terms (such as genocide) are regularly used. The scale and character of the collective clan-based violence committed against Isaaq civilians – who, although they were not the only civilians brutalized by the government, were especially targeted – suggest that this dimension of state-violence in the Northwest [Isaaq territory] indeed amounts to clan cleansing.[187]
According to Mohamed Haji Ingiriis, the vicious atrocities during the reign of Barre were not an isolated event nor unusual in Somalia's history. Barre also targeted the Hawiye. But, states Ingiriis, Barre extermination campaigns against other clan groups reflected the deep-seated historic cycles of repressions by the clan that gains dominant power then marginalizes other clans.[188]
