We raise awareness of the state sponsored genocide on the Isaaq population. Somalia's Gov conceived,preplanned &perpetrated this genocide as per @UN report 2001
Latest #Isaaqgenocide victims are 3 children- 1 died and 2 injured. The mine was planted by Somalia government forces before 1991 during their occupation of Somaliland where they carried out Genocide against the Isaaq population. @HaloTrust@UNOSAPG@SenateForeign@FCDOGovUK
Ambassador Peter Bridges writes in his Safirka book "Howitzer artillery became the only military weapon that we gave to Somalia that I regret, because it was the weapon that destroyed Hargeisa city and used by Siyad Barre. That was the time I left Somalia." #Genocide#Somaliland
#IsaaqGenocide was real & its time the world should know about it. 500K innocent civilians were killed by Somali National Army. Major cities of Somaliland were completly destroyed by aerial bombardment or artillery shelling. 650K civilians crossed to border to Ethiopia fleeing.
It is alarming that mines are still claiming the lives of Somalilanders despite #HaloTrust efforts to remove the mines for the past 22 years. It is alarming that the @UNOSAPG have still not addressed the #Isaaqgenocide despite their previous report and recommendations
We are alarmed and saddened by the news of 3 children being blown up by a mine that was planted 32 years ago by Somalia forces during their occupation of Somaliland Republic and during the genocide Somalia perpetrated against the Isaaq population in Somaliland. @SavetheChildren
Or #Somaliland, a nation that existed before their neighbour & perpetrator of Genocide @IsaaqGenocideEd
The #UKgovernment wants #Somaliland to negotiate with their oppressor. It was 31 years ago when the re-claimed their independence but #Britain has still yet to regonise them 🙁
Through out June-July 1988 as SNM fought in Hargeisa,Ducaale Ganaane returned to Hargeisa central prison on every day to pick 30 of # 2000 Isaaq political prisoners (rounded up in May28,88) for execution. Some who proved their mothers were related to the executioner were spared.
Very hard to watch, extremely painful narratives. Geed Deeble was the largest place for treatment of the wounds of SNM fighters and innocent civilians fled from Hargeisa, there was no hospital and other facilities to treat them, the wards was under the big trees in Geed Deeble.
Wrecked MiG-15 UTI jet and two MiG-21 aircraft at the airbases formerly used by the Somalian Aeronautical Corps. South African Mercenary and ex-Rhodesian pilots, got paid $2,000 per sortie. #Isaaqgenocide
In counter-offensive of March 1989, The Barre's regime used mercenary pilots from #South Africa and #Libya with military aid from the #UAE and #Italy providing few #Mi-4s and #Mi-8s helicopters leading to close targeting of civilian quarters killing nearly 50k in 6 months. [BITS]
In 1999, a report by UN Special Rapporteur Ms Mona Rishmawi, recommended that “authorities in foreign countries take steps to bring to justice those suspected of committing war crimes or crimes against humanity in Somalia”. Nothing has been done. #Somaliland
At the request of an independent expert of the UN Commission on Human Rights, an international forensic team, provided by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), came to #Somaliland in December 1997. Two North American forensic experts were shown more than 100 alleged mass-grave sites
Yesterday 39 Years Ago 11 April 1983. It was Operation Birjeex with Muj. Abdilahi Askar. The picture is of 9 of the 11 heroes who rescued the jihadist.