Abdullah Muhammad Fadil ( Somal. Cabdallah Maxamed Fadhil , Arabic. عبد الله محمد فاضل d. January 1991), also known as Abdullah Muhammad Fadil [1] - Somali warrior.
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Biography
Fadil was the son of a Yemeni musketeer from the Taiz governorate of the Hobyo Sultanate . His mother was Nuh Jabrail of the Somali clan of the Muzhartins. Both of his parents were subjects of Sultan Ali Yusuf Kenadid [2] .
Fadil was the chief of staff of the Joint Committee and the first commander of the Somali Armed Forces . He was also a senior member of the Supreme Revolutionary Council . He had the rank of major general [3] . He also had a number of ministerial portfolios: Minister of Industry and Trade, Minister of Health, Minister of Ports and Sea Transport during the reign of Siad Barre [4] .
In the 1970s, Abdullah Muhammad Fadil and Muhammad Ali Samatar advised President Barra to select the best graduates of the Frunze Academy in order to lead the Ogaden campaign against Ethiopia and unite the territory of the Somali Peninsula under the rule of Somalia [5] .
War of Ogaden
General Fadil and General Samantara selected the best military specialists from the Frunze Military Academy, giving them preference over graduates from Modena . Fadil and Samantar high placed their comrade-in-arms comrades who were graduates of this elite Soviet university, where the most capable army officers of the Warsaw Pact countries and their allies were trained. To lead the upcoming military campaign, Fadil and Samantar selected the following officers: [6]
- Colonel Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed - the direction of Negellie.
- Colonel Abdullahi Ahmed Irro - the direction of Goody.
- Colonel Ali Hussein - direction of Cabri Dahara.
- Colonel Farah Handulla - direction Warder.
- General Yussuf Salhan - Dzhigzhig direction.
- General Mohamed Nur Galaal.
- Colonel Ali Ismail and Colonel Abdulrahman Aare - Degeh-Bur direction.
Death
High-ranking officials of Somalia, including Fadil and Samantara, after the end of the war for Ogaden became the target for assassination because of their clan affiliation. After the outbreak of the Civil War in 1991 and the collapse of the Barre regime, Mario Sica, Italian Ambassador to Mogadishu , documented that although representatives of the United Somali Congress (USC) stated that they fought against the Barre regime as a whole and were not going to get involved in a clan struggle, - Barre regime officials who belonged to the same clan as the leaders of the USC did not fall victim to the opposition. On the contrary, they were greeted as heroes, while Fadil and people close to him were killed [7] . Fadil was reportedly killed by the owner of a restaurant in Mogadishu solely for clan reasons.
See also
- Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed
- Ali Matan Hashi
- Muhammad Ali Samantar
- Salaad Gabeire Kediye
Notes
- ↑ United Nations Development Program. Office of the Resident Representative (Somalia). Somalia Annual Development Report . - The Program, 1986. - P. 51.
- ↑ Ahmed III, Abdul. History of Somali Military Personnel. - The Horn of Africa Policy Institute.
- ↑ The Weekly Review . - Stellascope Limited, 1993 .-- P. 35.
- ↑ Copley, Gregory R. Defense & Foreign Affairs Handbook . - 1989: Perth Corporation. - P. 840.
- ↑ Lewis, IM; The Royal African Society. The Ogaden and the Fragility of Somali Segmentary Nationalism (Eng.) // African Affairs : journal. - 1989 .-- October ( vol. 88 , no. 353 ).
- ↑ Ahmed III, Abdul Brothers in Arms Part II . WardheerNews. Date of treatment March 13, 2012. Archived May 4, 2012.
- ↑ Kapteijns, Lidwien. Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 . - University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012 .-- P. 133. - ISBN 0812244672 .