Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan

Called Abdullahi Mohamed Siad Hersi also General Morgan, is a Warlord ( Warlord ) in the Somali civil war. He belongs to the clan of the Darod Majerteen.

Siad Hersi was given military training in Italy and the USA. He was son of the authoritarian president Siad Barre, who came from the Marehan Darod clan from Südwestsomalia. In this he was responsible for measures against the rebel movement SSDF his own clan. As Barre's defense minister in 1988 he fought the uprising of the SNM rebels in northern Somalia ( Somaliland ). He was said to be responsible for various crimes against the civilian population, which earned him the nickname " Butcher of Hargeisa " ( butcher of Hargeisa ).

In 1991, various rebel movements, the disempowerment of the Barre government. At that time, the highest-ranking military Hersi in disintegrating Somalia. He fought until 1993 in the south of the country in vain for a return Barres. Here he founded from the Marehan communities and remaining units of the Somali army, the Somali National Front ( SNF), which soon split. After the withdrawal of U.S. and UNOSOM troops he won the 1995 control of the port city of Kismayo, which he lost in 1999 to an alliance with the warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid SNF Group, but more besieged. From his followers Hersi formed instead the Somali Patriotic Movement - Harti (SPM ), which in the Civil War various alliances against Aidid (eg with Ali Mahdi Mohammed, or with Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, President of the de facto autonomous Puntland ) and against the Somali transitional government has closed.

Hersi fought the reigning from 2000 to 2004, interim president Abdikassim Salad Hassan, with whom he had once sat together in the government. Hassan had been until 1991 the last interior minister and deputy prime minister under Barre. Even Hassan's successor Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, he has not been subjected to.

Commanded Hersi 1991, 56,000 soldiers of the Somali army, the country is now under the control of 75,000 militiamen, of which only about 1,000 men follow the general.

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  • BBC News: Somali warlord 'to rejoin talks '
  • Military person (Somalia)
  • Politicians (Somalia)
  • Born in the 20th century
  • Man
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