Italy planned to split Somalia into three separate tribal states
Evidence
The present tendency to set up within the Trust Territory of Somaliland three separate tribal States, namely, the Dighil and Mirifle State, the State of Hawiya and the State of Darot, is … alarming. During the examination of petitions from Somaliland by the Standing Committee on Petitions the representative of the Administering Authority mentioned several times the infiltration of foreign elements into the districts of Baidoa and of Merka. Obviously, the foreign elements referred to are the Somalis from other regions within the Trust Territory who reside in the districts of Baidoa and Merka, either temporarily or permanently. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 302
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
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- Italy armed rival Somali parties to violently suppress SYL nationalists (similarity 0.78)
- Italian-backed Somali groups sought thirty-year Italian trusteeship (similarity 0.78)
- Bevin proposed a United Somalia trusteeship under Britain in 1946. (similarity 0.78)