?What is the October 21 anniversary of Somalis-------- Hassan Mohamed Haj

?What is the October 21 anniversary of Somalis
Hassan Mohamed Haj
With the capture of the 25 officers on October 21, 1969, the day became a pivotal date in the lives of the Somali people for up to 21 years, when Somalia's military rulers and their technocratic allies and their followers were founded when they established their political empire imposed on everyone. (The Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party), and the political (ruling Somali state institutions)
In another direction, the anniversary of the 21st of October has become a memory of the Somali people, especially those who experienced it in stages. They are also a broad audience with different visions about the meaning of the anniversary and the positive and negative historical imprints, divided between beneficiaries and victims, supporters and disgruntled people. The injustice that has occurred in their right, and as a result they have been involved in contributing to the progress of the nation's development and security.
The coup or revolution, as in the tradition of contrasting with its evaluation, had created people who benefited from the birth of the new order, either by loyalty to him or with him or by the tribal support of the members of the regime, as well as the support of large popular sectors that had benefited from some social and economic reforms By order
In the opposite direction, the anniversary and its political system had given rise to resentment and discontent among others, creating a reality of legitimate and legitimate tribal and popular alienation, given the divergent positions of the principals and the interests of the Somali tribes and sectors of the masses. In the end, , So that it became with him the strength of an explicit counter to the movement of October 21, which robbed these ambitions of their elites to reach power, and their role in seeking to dominate
The anniversary and its regime were based on the bodies of large sections of the Somali people whose resources were repressed and looted by the regime, while those who did not benefit radically from the social and economic reforms employed by the regime and benefited from specific population areas or many elements that were organic in association with the system
The coup d'état of October 21 also established the legacy of the aspiration to power by armed force. It was exemplified by the experience of leaders Caynaanshe-Gabayre in 1971, and in a similar vein in the April 9, 1978 coup d'état led by Colonel Mohamed Sheikh Othman , And Colonel Abdullah Yusuf Ahmed
On the other hand with the experience of the group of seven politicians and descendants of the tribes of Daroud, Huwai and Isaac in 1982, who in turn wanted to remove the head of the system
Not to mention the succession struggle in the presidency in 1986 between the constitutional groups Dastuurlay and the succession Dhaxaltooyo, which led the first of the team, Mohammed Ali Sumter and Brigadier Ahmed Suleiman Abdullah and the support of the political and military elites of Somalia, while led by Colonel Musleh Mohamed Siad Barre, Supporting the political and military elite of the Marian tribe and some of the leaders associated with the President's family, which it believed would be secure in the event that President Xavi did not return from the impact and consequences of the 1986 traffic accident, which was transferred to Saudi Arabia, In case of death
Through their system, the military exercised an imperative of importance on 21 October in the Somali collective mind group, which was tried to consolidate it by writing the history of modern Somalia, whether through educational curricula and other books that promoted the importance of this celebrated day !, poems and plays by the owner Folkloric rhythms and folk dance, which in turn ridiculed the coup movement and its birthday and worked to show the constant exhilaration for it
But the strangest thing is that October 21 has become an alternative day for national and historical events, so that it was covered by media, politically and socially, but it became clearly the first day in modern Somali memory during the rule of the regime. It has also harnessed all the political, organizational and human and financial capacities of the Somali state to celebrate this occasion and to show the feelings of allegiance forced
This resulted in a state of preparation and pre-organization of state institutions for a whole month. These preparations included the involvement of armed forces, police and security institutions, as well as the mass labor institutions of women, students, workers and peasants. , Health services, nursing and other popular sectors, as they were prepared for the occasion up to two weeks or more, through organizing and mobilizing them by an organizing committee for the occasion, often charged by the political leadership of the ruling regime.
The mandate of the preparatory committee responsible for the celebrations of October 21 was to prepare for the celebration of the occasion in all governorates of the Democratic Republic of Somalia through the formation of the preparatory committees, which were joined by all the moral, organizational and material support of the state institutions represented by the ministries and the main bodies. Provinces, branches and committees of the Socialist Revolutionary Party of Somalia throughout the country
The commemoration of the military movement was given an exceptional symbolism over the 21 years of the rule of their political system. However, the national days such as the June 26, 1960, Independence Day of the Somali Protectorates, the Worsingley Colony, the Zolhpanti colony of Britain, and the July 1 anniversary of the unity and independence of the Somali colonies from Italy. The lack of attention to other national days have not been granted the right of appreciation and memory, including the day of establishment (Somali Youth University SYL)
It did not stop at the level of glorification on October 21, but it went beyond that and became the same day associated with President Mohamed Siad Barre, which ended the case to become
Which is not shared by one of the military partners, who ended up to become followers of the first man gives them what he wants, and prevents them as he pleases! The man imposed himself on others and wrote poems and poems in it, suspended his image in the institutions of the state and private commercial property, and anyone who failed or refrained from the glorification of his image received punishment, the homes of citizens and overlooking the streets imposed on the inhabitants painted in white by the General Municipality, By the pioneers of the victory of the nation Ciidanka Guulwadayaasha Ummadda, as part of the contribution to the ritual show joy and pleasure forced. At the same time that President Mohamed Siad Barre imposed himself on the society and the state, in turn imposed the groups of military police, which played the key role in personal protection and guarding the pillars of its political system, to impose itself on the entire institution, although the original task was to monitor any movements Suspicious within the armed forces as a military military national, but ended up as a personal custody of the president and the electorate of the pillars of his rule! October 21, every year since the fall of the military system as a day of words and pain, and bowed to it by some of the motives of various, but the paradox is the existence and continuation of a reality where the Somali political elites with him to devote themselves, like President Mohamed Siad Barre and his regime, The bitterness of the sages of the Somalis, and in contrast the superficial justification by some and sighing on those old days, which ruled by the president and his assistants iron and fire, forgetting that what had been achieved in the past was the sweat of their brow and sacrifice, which the system did not deal with the logic of appreciation. It was the years that missed the Somali regime, the celebration of October 21, 1981-1982 and 1990, due to the fear of security imposed by the assassination of Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar Sadat, who was a political ally of the President of Somalia, Mohamed Siad Barre, "in addition to the case The security imbalance in the capital Mogadishu in 1990 "
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