Former Italian Somali soldiers banded together and terrorized regions post-occupation

Evidence

The squadron supported a military expedition dispatched to the area. It took three months to defeat the bandits, and then Hussen was transferred to Dolo and then to Qalafo on the Shabelle River. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 199

Categorization

• XREF: Documents the social instability left by the collapse of Italy’s colonial army, a backdrop to the militarization and political consolidation of the 1940s-50s. — connects to: End of external patronage turned Somali collaborators into combatants in an attrition war — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 818
• SEED: The ‘Governo Jagahiir’ bandits — former colonial soldiers—would make a vivid case study of how demobilized imperial troops destabilize post-colonial territories.