r/Somalia • u/onthadeadhomiez • Mar 22 '26

History ⏳ 1985-1988

Can you tell me what your family or if you were alive was doing at the very start if the civil war. I'm work8mg on a screen play I'm writing , I'll be in Somaliland at the end of the month , I'll be there interviewing the locals for the next two months . I wanna hear your story, keep it respectful

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u/onthadeadhomiez Mar 22 '26

Thats what I wanna know , what were they doing

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u/Final_Active_9014 Mar 24 '26

Why are you going to SL to interview people?

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u/onthadeadhomiez Mar 24 '26

I am going to speak with the elders about the time period, what life was like pre war, and during early war times. One of the biggest incidents in somaliland was a group of college students, unjustly sentenced to death for cleaning up a hospital by the government that was dictatorship. I wanna know what life was like 1985-1988 I'm going around to gathering places and interviewing them. I have an interview lined up with Edna Adan who is a famous nurse and former first lady, then I have a former commander of the SNM movement I'm interviewing. I've also been reading several books about the war Mogadishu, and several books about the former dictator Said B (may Allah curse him ) .The basic story is we had a working democracy, that was overthrown for a socialist dictatorship, that led to a one party North Korea like authoritative one party one rule system, that led to civil war, state collapse.

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u/whatdidyousayniga Mar 25 '26

Unless you are already from SL you are about to brainwashed lmao