General of Somalia 3-4 - His closeness with General Hussein Kalmeh Afrah

General of Somalia 3-4
- His closeness with General Hussein Kalmeh Afrah
Khaled Hassan Yousef
The background of the work of the Italian colonial police was collected by Lieutenant General Mohamed Ali Samer and Major General Hussein Kalmeh Afrah, both of whom were listed before the independence of Somalia in that apparatus. Both studied military in Italy, the former received part of his military education in the Soviet Union while the second studied in the United States . On the eve of the coup d'etat on 21 October 1969, Officer Sampter was a lieutenant colonel in the army, while Officer Calme was a police dean.
Officially, General Kalme remained the highest ranking leader in the Supreme Council of the Revolution (SCIRI), compared to General Sampter, and until his appointment as Vice-President of the Somali Democratic Republic in 1982. Prior to independence, both worked with the Italian police in the colony of Mogadishu.
Insiders on the Somali political scene confirm that both men were close to each other after they came to power, and that they were united by a reality of solidarity imposed by their political interests and a common vision to focus the system and not to go out compared with some of their former comrades who were looking to get out of order and change its structure again, not to mention Both were working to harness its tribal social bases to extend the rule of the regime, and in this regard both had a role in military and civilian assimilation of the activities of the Hoyi tribes and the marginalized tribes, which later met under the name of Jebwayh.
- Social accounts have not been broken
The group Sampeter, who was emphasizing the national and revolutionary discourse, was not isolated from the practice of the tribal situation, especially as he had a large bloc turned around him from the marginalized tribes officers in the army.
The two generals, Samer and Kalmier, converged on a modest balance with the strong alliance between President Mohamed Siad Barre and Brigadier General Ahmed Sulaiman Abdullah, a member of the Political Bureau of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party. They were joined by the Masr and the Tribal Tribal League, With factors that contributed to their political continuity.
Those familiar with the Somali political reality had confirmed that the group had wanted to secure their political future through social rapprochement with President Siad. He had applied for a marriage with the governor of Somalia, who had argued that his daughter had not agreed to marry Samer, while tribal affiliation and descent Of the marginalized tribe of Tumal formed a stop factor behind his rejection as a husband of the Somali president's daughter. Consequently, the power partnership, loyalty, political ability, and Marxist approach to the regime were not socialized.
However, this social racial contradiction did not prevent both President Mohamed Siad Barre and Lieutenant General Samer from supervising the marriage of Somali artist Ahmed Ali Aijal and artist Maryam Mursal Bhutan, a marriage celebrated by the Somali regime as revolutionary mimicry of despots who echoed their determination to bridge intolerance and tribal differences In Somali society, and to affirm support for emancipation and the marginalization of some Somali tribes by their peers.
In another social and similar direction, a young man from the Ogaden tribe sought to marry Samer and offered a marriage from his daughter. The team stipulated that his tribe apply for marriage, as required by the Somali social norms, which did not materialize. The state and the slope of the Ogaden tribe, against the background of its political and military role with the file of the Ogaden region occupied by the Ethiopian state, resulting in the formation of a large estimate and circumvention by the leaders of the Ogaden tribe around him politically and militarily and focus their loyalty to his person and the Somali president.
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And from the standpoint of capabilities, such as the team Samer as a distinguished military man, while Major General Adam Kokai, the Somali police to consider the loyalty and personal association with President Mohamed Siad Barre, and remained at the head of the security apparatus, despite the modest leadership abilities compared with Brigadier General Ahmed Jamea Musa and many of the leaders that have remained Under his chairmanship, the machine.
He passed through the flag of Somalia and the police on his Mercedes car as a piece he had collected with Brigadier Abdul Wahab al-Haj Hussein, the leader of the militia militia pioneers of the nation and the smelter of the Somali president, who in turn was raising the flag of the militia on his Mercedes.
While the political importance of the team Samer, did not pay in his moves to use more than two cars and avoid to draw attention, not to mention the adoption of the Sherkoli military gathering, which included housing and clubs for officers and army headquarters in the Directorate of Hdn, a safe home for his life and his family, and proximity to the reality of the Somali army, Appreciation and allegiance, and was not convinced of his alternative military leadership.
This is indicative of the army's indignation towards the military and military arrogance known to Major General Omar al-Haj Muhammad (Musli) during the period of the Ministry of Defense, which was launched from the background of the tribal association that he had with the Somali president.
While Samer's close proximity to the army and his needs, not to mention his humility and charismatic nature in managing the Ministry of Defense and dealing with military officers and military personnel, were factors that he appreciated in their own esteem and socially.
Khaled Hassan Yousef