Somali Patriotic Movement

The Somali Patriotic Movement ( Somali Patriotic Movement, SPM ) is a war party in the Somali Civil War, which was founded in 1989 and in southern Somalia in the region around the city of Kismayo Jubbada Hoose is active. She went from the clan of the Darod, especially from its Ogadeni - Subclan, produced and directed as one of several rebel movements against the authoritarian government of Somalia under Siad Barre.

After the fall of Barre's the SPM was divided into two factions: While the SPM Ogadeni or SPM - SNA 1992, the Somali National Alliance and its leader Mohammed Farah Aidid joined, the SPM - Harti fought under Aden Abdullahi Only Gabyow and Siad Hersi now (unsuccessfully ) for a return Barres.

1998 called the SPM Harti the independence of the south-western part of Somalia as Jubaland from. However, your main adversary in the region, the Juba Valley Alliance, urged her back.

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• UNHCR Country Report on Somalia

• Military (Somalia)