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Introduction
EelaayOnline.com is a site primarily attempted to expose and give a factual detailed information on our entire community including the whole much less talked about DIGIL IYO MIRIFLE PEOPLE, and thus why we here to inform the world.
Digil iyo Mirifle people are less known in the world and yet we inherit the most wonderful, largest and most historic locations you would find in the world.
So at this point you might ask why is Digil iyo Mirifle people less known compared to other clans? Well the answer is very simple, even though all soomaal clans are from the NORTH of SOMALIA, we've historically inherited the entire south of somalia due to mass migration from the north clans such as haweiye/daarood and other small ethnics moving to the south, as a result we lost much of our land originally inheritted by our people.
Masha'allah
Surprisingly looks very alive and busy with huge traffic
the crops look ever so green, its got paved roads
and even paved runway in the airport
many shops can be seen from the video
and also a lot of people in the baydhabo market
young kids swimming in the small estuaries
When discussing Somali’s resistance to colonizers people usually focus on Sayid Mohamed Abdullah Hassan and his dervish movement. Dubbed the Mad Mullah by the British Empire he mostly fought with British colonizers in the north and had only a few ventures in southern Somalia. Most of southern Somali resistance is never mentioned. Men like Nassib Buunto, Sheik Aways Al-Qadiri, Sheik Hassan Barsane Sharif Aliyow and Sufi Baraki are erased from the history books and their resistance movement, death and legacy are all unfortunately forgotten.
As Italian officials first appeared in Somalia they were almost immediately met with resistance. As Italians began to take the Banaadir coast and Xamar they began to impose tarrifs and blockades on the locals which caused massive inflation. Clans of the coast such as Geledi, Wacdaan, Tunni, Biimaal and others started to fight and resist against the Italians. The resistance was strong enough to keep the Italians on the coast and not into the hinterlands of the inter-riverine for over two decades between 1886 and 1908
In 1890 the so called Gosha Revolt began and was led by Nassib Bunto. The revolt started in the lower Shabelle as a struggle against slavery. Bunto recruited the majority of his men from freed slaves who deserted their Italian landlords. He established his center in the Gosha region (now part of lower shabelle) and he began a resistance. His region became a safe haven for escaped slaves where they established farming, cattle herding, training in handicrafts, and manufacturing tools and weapons. These newly freed men resisted the Italian landlords and colonizers. The Gosha Revolt kept the Italians from taking the area and pushing inwards for decades, until its defeat in 1907.
The idea of The Universityof Southern SomaliaBaidoa (USSB) was originally conceived by a group of Digil y Mirifle scholars and intellectuals in the United States.
Though many people know of the Somali Youth League (SYL) as the independence party of Somalia they were actually not the first Somali independence party. Sayyid Abdulle Hassan’s Dervish movement and other armed struggles in the south by the local tribes; Geledi, Wacdaan, Biimaal, Tuni, Dafeed etc. were armed resistance movements but really didn’t have a political wing nor a political objective other then kicking out the colonial power.
The first Somali political independence party started in the 1920’s.This group was called Al-Jamiyyah Al-Khayriyah Al-Wataniyah and it started as a philanthropic movement composed of prominent business men who lobbied the colonial powers for the rights of the citizens. This group transformed into Hizbia Digil y Mirifle (HDM) in 1947 and even this preceded the SYL by two months. The group later re-named itself Hizbia Dastur Mustalqil Al-Sumal (HDMS) in 1956.
The group made crystal clear goals to attain an independent federal state of Somalia. The HDM organized mass protests and anti-colonial rallies. The group made public awareness bids to the average citizen to inform the locals of the group’s desired goals and the disregard for the colonial power.
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