Italy armed rival Somali parties to violently suppress SYL nationalists

Evidence

While Italy has, in its administering authority here, promised to maintain peace and public security in Somalia (Art. 2 and 6 T.A.) and a rigid application of the law without racial and political discrimination, the Administrators likewise Bernardelli Copasso have, on resuming power, started to practice a ‘divide and rule’ policy by instigating the Somalis to kill each other at Baidoa, Bardera, and Lugh Ferrandi. … As a result of such organized persecution, based on ‘kill your brother’ in the interest of others, all members and sympathizers of the League have been forced to abandon in mass [sic] and [flee] from the Upper Juba province in which area they have lived for over a century in good harmony with their Somali brothers even if their political opinions differed. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1245