Clan chauvinism in Mogadishu treated non-clan residents as foreigners.
Evidence
Those who had seized property claimed that it belonged to the state and had been stolen by the previous occupants. Moreover, since their Habar Gidir clan ‘now owned the country’, other people’s property now belonged to them: everybody else was a foreigner. These were the depths of actual clan chauvinism. Some of the older urban commercial communities (Arab, Reer Hamar, etc.) belonging to clans without effective militias, who were routinely abused, escaped abroad. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 650 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
Mogadishu was now an overlapping network of such mafia-style neighbourhoods, each under the protection of a particular big man and his clan militia, with frequent turf wars as attempts were made to expand rival jurisdictions. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 685 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Siyad fled Mogadishu in January 1991, and clan divisions became Somalia’s only security structure; Mogadishu fragmented into mafia-style clan-protection neighborhoods. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 685; Post-war Mogadishu fragmented into mafia-style neighbourhood proto-states (+2 more)
Related
- Mogadishu fragmented into mafia-style clan-protection neighborhoods. (similarity 0.91)
- Habar Gidir militias justified land seizures by declaring non-members foreigners. (similarity 0.89)
- Post-war Mogadishu fragmented into mafia-style neighbourhood proto-states (similarity 0.88)
- Siyad fled Mogadishu in January 1991, and clan divisions became Somalia’s only security structure (similarity 0.83)
Broader Connections
- Habar Gidir militias justified land seizures by declaring non-members foreigners.
#exemplifies(0.85) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 650 - Mogadishu fragmented into mafia-style clan-protection neighborhoods.
#corroborates(0.75) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 685 - Post-war Mogadishu fragmented into mafia-style neighbourhood proto-states
#corroborates(0.70)