Greater Somalia League

Greater Somalia League

Greater Somalia League was a political party in Somalia. The party was led by Haaji Mahammad Husseen. It was formed by dissidents of the Somali Youth League. [http://countrystudies.us/somalia/14.htm] The party was fiercly nationalist and called for the unification of all Somali areas into one state. It charged the Somali Youth League with now wanting the unification of Somalia. Haaji Mahammad Husseen and a group of his followers were arrested after violent protests and put to trial. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,865970,00.html]

The party boycotted the 1958 municipal election, charging harassment from the SYL. [Rousseau, David L. "Democracy and War: Institutions, Norms, and the Evolution of International Conflict". Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. p. 283] It also boycotted the 1959 elections. [http://www.banadir.com/pparties.htm]

The party had good relations with the Republican Union in French Somaliland. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=6869920]

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