Mohamed Abshir Muse
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2023}}
{{Short description|First Somali Police Officer}}
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| name = Mohamed Abshir Muse
| native_name = محمد أبشير موسى
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1926|7|1|df=y}} Harardhere{{fact|date=January 2025}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|10|25|1926|7|1|df=y}}
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| death_place = Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
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| allegiance = {{flag|Somalia}}
| branch = File:Flag of the Somali Police Force.gif Somali National Police Force
| serviceyears = 1940s–1960s
| rank = 15px Major General
| commands = Somali Police Force
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Mohamed Abshir Muse ({{langx|so|Maxamed Abshir Muuse}}, {{langx|ar|محمد أبشير موسى}}); 1 July{{fact|date=January 2025}} 1926 – 25 October 2017), also known as Mahamed Abshir Haamaan, was a prominent Somali General and the first Commander of the Somali Police Force.{{cite book|last=Jama|first=Hassan Ali|title=Who cares about Somalia : Hassan's ordeal reflections on a nation's future|year=2005|publisher=Schiler|location=Berlin|isbn=3-89930-075-0|edition=1.}}
Early years
Abshir Muse was born to a Somali family and received training from the Carabinieri, Italy's national gendarmerie.{{cite web|last=Mohamed|first=Hassan|title=The Puntland Experience|url=http://www.radiodaljir.com/audio/docs/ipThePuntlandExperience.pdf|publisher=RadioDaljir|accessdate=3 March 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316123444/http://www.radiodaljir.com/audio/docs/ipThePuntlandExperience.pdf|archivedate=16 March 2012}}
Military and police career
Muse worked his way up to become a commandant in the Somali Defence forces from 1958 to 1960 and then opted to join the Somali Police Force upon its inception and commanded the force for 9 years till the military coup of 1969.{{cite web|url=http://www.biyokulule.com/Somali%20Manifesto%20I.htm |title=Zooming into the Past |publisher=Biyokulule.com |accessdate=2023-06-15}}
General Muse resigned in 1969 ahead of elections as he opposed the electoral process. He was later jailed by the military dictator Siad Barre for speaking out against the regime.{{cite web|last=Yahya|first=Mahamud M|title=In Siyaad Barre's Prison: A Brief Recollection|url=http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1046&context=bildhaan&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.uk%2Fsearch%3Fix%3Dseb%26sourceid%3Dchrome%26ie%3DUTF-8%26q%3DGeneral%2BMohamed%2BAbshir%2BMuse#search=%22General%20Mohamed%20Abshir%20Muse%22|publisher=Macalester College}} He later on became the leader of the SSDF's political wing while Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed led the armed wing from 1991 to 1998. There was a leadership struggle between the two parties, with Abdullahi Yusuf garnering the support of former military officials and Mohamed Abshir Muse the support from politicians associated with the civilian government of the 1960s.{{cite book|editor-last=Rubin|editor-first=Barry|title=Guide to Islamist movements|year=2010|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|location=Armonk, N.Y.|isbn=978-0-7656-1747-7}} He died on 25 October 2017, aged 91.{{cite web|url=http://www.garoweonline.com/en/news/somalia/somalias-1st-police-chief-dies-in-the-usa-at-91|title = Somalia's 1st Police chief dies in U.S. At 91| date=30 June 2020 }} The collective punishment meted out by his officer Koosafaaro resulted in the first ever armed resistance in Somalia called Koofiya Dhuub.The nature of the state in Somalia and Somaliland: The Conversations of the Statebuilding and Peacebuilding Processes
See also
References
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External links
- {{cite web|last=Mohamed|first=Hassan|title=The Puntland Experience|url=http://www.radiodaljir.com/audio/docs/ipThePuntlandExperience.pdf|publisher=RadioDaljir|accessdate=3 March 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316123444/http://www.radiodaljir.com/audio/docs/ipThePuntlandExperience.pdf|archivedate=16 March 2012}}
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Category:Somalian military leaders