British withdrawal unleashed clan feuds and mass starvation in the interior

Evidence

Consequently, far from throwing up a leader to lead the friend-lies against the Dervishes, the clans now launched into a frenzied pursuit of old scores and feuds, and the interior of the country lapsed into a state of unparalleled confusion and chaos. Soon indeed the situation was so desperate that a large proportion of the population was reduced to a state bordering on starvation, and food was so scarce that people had to eat rats and other unclean animals. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 228

Categorization

• XREF: Follows from the earlier pattern of inter-clan feuding that British presence had only temporarily suppressed. — connects to: Colonial partition entrenched fragmentation that would later generate friction; British withdrawal into coastal forts unleashed clan feuds and mass starvation.; Britain’s 1897 withdrawal of protection exposed Somali clansmen to Ethiopian occupation — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 189 (+6 more)

Related

• British withdrawal into coastal forts unleashed clan feuds and mass starvation. (similarity 0.90)
• Britain’s 1897 withdrawal of protection exposed Somali clansmen to Ethiopian occupation (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial partition entrenched fragmentation that would later generate friction (similarity 0.83)
• British miscalculation ignored population drift that pushed protected Somali into Ethiopia’s sphere (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial partition split Somali clans across borders and fuelled turbulence (similarity 0.81)
• Britain’s 1897 withdrawal knowingly doomed the Somali clans’ independence. (similarity 0.81)
• Britain withdrew to the coast in 1910, arming allied clans and abandoning the Dulbahante (similarity 0.81)
• Somali clan maneuvering between rival empires weakened the Somali position (similarity 0.81)
• Britain’s hurried partition border cut through communities and homes (similarity 0.78)
• Britain in 1897 nearly abandoned its Somaliland protectorate (similarity 0.78)
• Long-run southward Somali migration funnelled protected clans into Ethiopia’s sphere. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Somali clan maneuvering between rival empires weakened the Somali position #contradicts (0.50)
• Britain’s imperial legacy turned black migration into phobic post-colonial melancholia #complicates (0.30)