Those who could be of financial help or influence to the SNM, because of social status, were to be put in prison. You might wanna slow your roll dude Imao, you must have been hella drunk. According to Human Rights Watch the city had suffered "some of the worst abuses of the war even though the SNM never attacked Berbera".[142]. In January 1989, Oxfam Australia (at the time known as Community Aid Abroad), an aid agency which was based in Erigavo and ran a primary healthcare program for the Sanaag region, withdrew its program after operating for eight years in Somalia. Emina erimovi. [21] The genocide also included the levelling and complete destruction of the second and third largest cities in the Somali Republic, Hargeisa (which was 90 percent destroyed)[22] and Burao (70 percent destroyed), respectively,[23] and had caused up to 500,000[24][25] Somalis of the region, primarily of the Isaaq clan,[26] to flee their land and cross the border to Hartasheikh in Ethiopia as refugees in what was described as "one of the fastest and largest forced movements of people recorded in Africa",[24] which resulted in the creation of the world's largest refugee camp then (1988),[27] with another 400,000 being displaced. The scale of destruction was unprecedented, up to 90 percent of the city (then the second largest city in Somalia) was destroyed,[132][133][134] (United States embassy estimated 70 percent of the city was damaged or destroyed). The Marine Commander of Berbera, Colonel Muse 'Biqil', along with two other senior military officers ordered the 11 nomads be burnt alive. [155], On government orders, all Isaaq senior officials were proscribed from leaving the country for fear they would joining the SNM. The sixth man was charged with being a member of the SNM and accompanying the SNM fighter who escaped. These killings started after the SNM escalated its incursions into the Isaaq majority cities in the north. NBC News reported a story on 12 January 1989 that the Reagan Administration "had information eight months earlier that Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi gave Somalia chemical weapons". Hargeisa was the second largest city of the country,[122] it was also strategically important due to its geographic proximity to Ethiopia (which made it central to military planning of successive Somali governments). Due to these ties, the Ogaden refugees enjoyed preferential access to "social services, business licenses and even government posts. Within British Somaliland the Isaaq constituted the majority group within the protectorate[40] with Dir and Harti groups also having sizeable populations to the west and east of Isaaq respectively. [67] He also ordered the transfer of Afraad away from the border region, giving the WSLF complete control of the border region, thus leaving Isaaq nomads in the area without any protection against WSLF violence. During the period of unrest in the north of the country, the government started arresting civilian Isaaq residents of the capital, Mogadishu. Other aims of the policy included arming other clans in the region[88] and encouraging them to fight the dominant Isaaq: "Since it has become evident that the Isaaq were, by act and intent, with the SNM; and since we could not see them giving up the line they have pursued so deceptively for some time; and in order to forestall them; we arranged for the other inhabitants of the North continuous meetings and a mobilization campaign designed to rouse them to action and to raise their level of awareness. Water reservoirs at War Ibraan and Beli Iidlay were mined. A Victory for Bosnian Children | Human Rights Watch "[53] The cash-strapped government spends $50,000 on the war crimes commission each year, and is building a $300,000 museum to showcase.