Military and armed-group figures
Hassan Mohamed Nur 'Shatigadud' (Shaati Gaduud)
Colonel Hassan Mohamed Nur 'Shatigadud' (1946–2013) was chairman of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army from its founding in October 1995. The RRA took Baidoa in June 1999, and in April 2002 he became president of the South West State it declared. He joined the Transitional Federal Government in 2004 as a member of parliament and finance minister, was briefly national security minister in December 2007, and died in Germany in 2013.
Hassan Mohamed Nur 'Shatigadud'Shatigadud · Shaati Gaduud
- Lived
- 1946 to 2013
- Known as one of
- Military and armed-group figures
- Era
- The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 3 sources
In short
Hassan Mohamed Nur, known as Shatigadud, led the Rahanweyn Resistance Army of the Digil and Mirifle of Bay and Bakool. This page records his public role from the sources, without taking sides.
Background
Wikipedia records that he was born in 1946 at Bakaar Yare, Wajid district, Bakool, and belongs to the Hariin of the Mirifle (Wikipedia, Hasan Shatigadud). Accounts of the RRA's founding describe him as a colonel (Wikipedia, Rahanweyn Resistance Army).
The RRA, 1995–2002
After the Somali National Alliance of Mohamed Farrah Aidid took Baidoa on 17 September 1995, an assembly at Jhaffey, west of Baidoa, founded the RRA on 13 October 1995 and elected him chairman. The RRA took Huddur in October 1998 and Baidoa on 6 June 1999 (Wikipedia, Rahanweyn Resistance Army). Reports differ on Ethiopia's role in that capture; see the RRA page.
South West State, 2002
On 1 April 2002 the RRA declared an autonomous South West State centred on Baidoa, with him as president (Wikipedia, citing IRIN). In July 2002 fighting broke out in Baidoa between forces loyal to him and forces of his former deputies, Adan Madobe and Mohamed Ibrahim Habsade; BBC News reported at least 12 killed (BBC News, 31 July 2002, via ecoi.net). The present member state is described in South West State.
In the federal government
In November 2004 he became a member of the Transitional Federal Parliament, and in January 2005 Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi named him finance minister. On 2 December 2007 Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein named him national security minister; the next day he and three other Rahanweyn ministers resigned (Wikipedia, citing Reuters). See Rebuilding, 2007–2012.
Death
He died in Dortmund, Germany, in 2013, aged 66. His body was flown to Mogadishu and buried in Baidoa (Wikipedia, citing Garowe Online, 8 April 2013).
Sources differ
- Date of death. Late March or 3 April 2013.
- Date of birth. Given as 17 June 1946 or only as 1946.
Read the primary sources yourself
- BBC News, "Militiamen fight for Somali town" (31 July 2002): ecoi.net record.
Sources
- Wikipedia, Hasan Shatigadud · en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, Rahanweyn Resistance Army · en.wikipedia.org
- BBC News, 31 July 2002, via ecoi.net · ecoi.net
Hassan Mohamed Nur 'Shatigadud'Shatigadud · Shaati Gaduud
- Lived
- 1946 to 2013
- Known as one of
- Military and armed-group figures
- Era
- The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 3 sources
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