SOMALIA: Why Somaliland president is on the path of a war criminal

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Somaliland president, Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo, has chosen the path to becoming a war criminal. Is it fair to characterise him a warlord after winning a landslide election in Somaliland one year ago?
Somaliland is at logger-heads with Sool, Sanaag and Cayn leadership (SSC) , an alliance of pro-union sub-clans
and Puntland administration which ruled Sool’s administrative capital, Las Anod until October 2007 when Somaliland forces led by Col. Ahmed Mohamed Aadan (aka Dalbac) who , along with 250 men, defected to SSC forces on Monday 7 August 2011. “I decided to leave Somaliland forces because I saw hatred and clan mobilisation to massacre my Dhulbahante clansmen and clanswomen” he told BBC Somali Service. “In 2007 when Somaliland forces captured Las Anod it was a power struggle between two administrations but now Somaliland is attacking a clan Read More