Surely true, hawa wakenya hawana ujuzi wa kivita kabisa lakini mbwembwe kibao
Sawa sawa
wewe ji console Just know that in Somalia we are working for the UN and thus we have to follow rules and regulations like caring about civilian population avoid dropping bombs in high target areas with animal/civilians well in a war between two countries we won't here is how the first time Somalia tried to mess with Kenya Read how it went down
Shifta War
Date 1963–1967
Location North Eastern Province , Kenya, Jubaland Somalia's
Result: NFD became North eastern province Kenya
Who fought who?
Kenya
Northern Frontier District Liberation Movement
Somalia
Casualties and losses
17,000 bandits
4,200+Somali Army killed
1700 Kenyans killed
The Shifta War (1963–1967) was a
secessionist conflict in which ethnic Somalis in the Northern Frontier District (NFD) of Kenya (a region that is and has historically been almost exclusively inhabited by ethnic Somalis[2][3][4] ) attempted to join with their fellow Somalis in a Greater Somalia. The Kenyan government named the conflict "shifta", after the
Somali word for "bandit", as part of a propaganda effort. The Kenyan
counter-insurgency General Service Units forced civilians into "protected villages" (essentially concentration camps )[5] as well as killing a large number of livestock kept by the
pastoralist Somalis.
The war ended in the late summer of 1967 when
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal , Prime Minister of the Somali Republic, signed a ceasefire with Kenya
The province thus entered a period of running skirmishes between the
Kenyan Army and Somali-backed
Northern Frontier District Liberation Movement (NFDLM) insurgents. One immediate consequence was the signing in 1964 of a Mutual Defense Treaty between Jomo Kenyatta's administration and the government of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie .
At the outset of the war, the government declared a State of Emergency. This consisted of allowing security forces to detain people up to 56 days without trial, confiscating the property of communities allegedly in retaliation for acts of violence, and restricting the right to assembly and movement. A 'prohibited zone' was created along the Somali border, and the death penalty was made mandatory for unauthorised possession of firearms. "Special courts" without guarantee of due process were also created. The northeast—declared a "special district" – was subject to nearly unfettered government control, including the authority to detain, arrest or forcibly move individuals or groups, as well as confiscate possessions and land. [14] However, as part of its effort to reassure the public, the Voice of Kenya was warned not to refer to the conflict as a "border dispute", while a special government committee decided to refer to the rebels as "shiftas" to minimise the political nature of the war.
Over the course of the war, the new Kenyan government became increasingly concerned by the growing strength of the Somali military. At independence, Somalia had a weak army of 5,000 troops that was incapable of exerting itself beyond its borders. However, in 1963, the Somali government appealed for assistance from the Soviet Union, which responded by lending it about $32 million. By 1969, 800 Somali officers had received Soviet training, while the army had expanded to over 23,000 well-equipped troops. The Kenyan fear that the insurgency might escalate into an all-out war with phalanxes of well-equipped Somali troops was coupled with a concern about the new insurgent tactic of planting land mines.
The story gets interesting
In 1967, Kenyan fears reached a fever pitch, and a special government committee was created to prepare for a full-scale war with Somalia. The government also adopted a policy of compulsory
villagization in the war-affected area. In 1967, the populace was moved into 14 Manyattas , villages that were guarded by troops (some referred to them as concentration camps). East Africa scholar Alex de Waal described the result as "a military assault upon the entire pastoral way of life," as enormous numbers of livestock were confiscated or killed, partly to deny their use by the guerrillas and partly to force the populace to abandon their flocks and move to a Manyatta.
Thus, made destitute, many nomads became an urban underclass, while educated Somalis in Kenya fled the country. [14] The government also removed the dynastic Sultans, who were the traditional leaders, with low-ranking government-appointed chiefs.
Anthropologist John Baxter returned to the village in
Somalia District in Somalia on the border with Kenya that he had researched in 1953, and had this to say about the few non-Somali minority tribes that lived at the time alongside the Somali majority:
The war thus marked the beginning of decades of violent crackdowns and repressive measures by the police in the NFD coupled with trumped-up allegations and unsubtle innuendo on the part of the Kenyan media charging the region's almost exclusively Somali inhabitants with "banditry" and other vice. [19]
A particularly violent incident referred to as the Wagalla Massacre took place in 1984, when the Kenyan provincial commissioner ordered security forces to gather 5,000 men of the Somali
Degodia clan onto the airstrip at
Wagalla , Wajir , open fire on them, and then attempt to hide their bodies. In the year 2000, the government admitted to having killed 380 people, though independent estimates put the toll at over 2,000. [20]
Not until late 2000 and the administration of Provincial Commissioner Mohammoud Saleh – a Somali—was there a serious drop in violent activities, partially attributable to Saleh's zero tolerance policy towards abuse by security forces. Ironically, Saleh himself was the target of the local police, having been arrested and booked several times. Wearing plain clothes, Saleh was apparently mistaken for an ordinary inhabitant of the NFD. [8]
upon his arrival to Somalia the anthropogist said
In 1982, only a few fortunate ones still maintained themselves through stock pastoralism. Some 40 percent of the Boran and Sakuye of the District had been driven to peri-urban shanty villages in the new administrative townships. There, they eked out a bare subsistence, hanging around the petrol stations for odd jobs, hawking for miraa , making illicit alcohol, engaging in prostitution and the like.
Their way of life had been totally destroyed by the Kenyan forces who forced every one in the Somali buffer zone into a manyatta, killed their animals and abolished the sultan dynasties.
Somalis led a really poor life compared to a decade ago before Somalia's independence
so MiTZ chezeeni Kenya tu Ila itafika siku mtapaguza pabaya ndio mtatambua kwanini Somalia ilianguka
Ethiopia and Kenya signed a military pact in 1966 ....in 1967 shift a war ended in 1969 there was a coup in Somalia this was followed by 14 other attempted coups and in 1991 THE MOTHER OF ALL COUPS was organised in Somalia the country has never recovered till today
We will play politics and propaganda wars with all of you and finish you off even before we invade and place you all in detention and take your land and make it Kenyan
just know that Kenya spends
2.21bn$ on it's security today
The Kenya NSIS spends 157mn $ yearly FYI NSIS is a spy agency
Tanzanias military spends 357mn$ budget yearly
our KWS -KENYA WILDLIFE SERVICE - out spends your military
msi muone simba amenyeshewa mkadhania ni paka