Ali Matan Hashi
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Ali Matan Hashi علي متان حاشي | |
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Chief of the Somali Air Force | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1927 Brigadier General |
Commands | Commander in Chief of the Air Force Minister of Justice SRC Cabinet Member |
Battles/wars | Aerial Campaign of Ogaden War |
Ali Matan Hashi (1927–1978;
History
Ali Matan was born in Hobyo into a Marehan Darod family in the Mudug Region of Somalia .[1]
He created the
Ali was born in Hobyo in the Mudug Region of Somalia in 1927. At the age of 17, he joined the Signal Corps of the British Occupation Forces in 1944 where he took upon radio engineering. As it was the norm of many Somali activists at that time, he joined the incipient Somali Youth League in 1944 and was the secretary of the young political party at the Sagag (Segeg) village in Dhagabur District. Following the abolition of the Somaliland Signal Corps in 1947, he joined the Post and Telecommunications department in Mogadishu.
Whilst in Mogadishu; he participated in several protests, notably the Hanoolaato anti-colonial uprising in Jan 1948. In 1950, he was imprisoned by the
In 1959, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and was subsequently sent to Italy, where he commenced a training as a first class pilot, according to the type of aircraft then available at that time in Somalia.
Upon his return from Italy in 1960, he was promoted to the rank of Captain and together with his colleagues were transferred to the newly created Somali Air Force. In late 1960, he supervised the first weekly flights connecting the capital city Muqdisho to the second capital Hargeisa. Hargeisa citizens dubbed it as the ‘Cali Mataan Airways’.
In 1963, he was promoted to the rank of major, and towards the end of that year, he was sent to the Soviet Forces Academy in Moscow, where he undertook training as a full-fledged Mig pilot. Upon his return from the Soviet Union in 1965, he was appointed as the new Commander of the Somali Air Force and in 1967 was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Ali Matan Hashi was one of the officers who participated in the 1969 coup that overthrew the government. After the take-over, he was incorporated in the newly created Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC).
In 1970, his rank was elevated to full colonel, and in 1973 he was nominated as an advisor on legal and presidential affairs. In 1974, he became the new chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee of the SRC, which oversaw the introductions of legal reformations in the country. Two years prior to his death in 1978, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general.[4]
See also
- Muhammad Ali Samatar
- Hussein Kulmiye Afrah
- Abdullah Mohamed Fadil
- Abdirizak Mohamud Abubakar
- Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle
- Abdullahi Ahmed Irro
- Asli Hassan Abade
- Salaad Gabeyre Kediye
References
- ^ a b c Satya Pal Ruhela, Mohammed Farah Aidid and his vision of Somalia, (Vikas Pub. House: 1994), p.42.
- ^ Luigi Pestalozza, The Somalian Revolution, (Éditions Afrique Asie Amérique latine: 1974), p.27.
- ^ Africa Research, Ltd, Africa research bulletin: Political, social, and cultural series, Volume 10, (Africa Research, Ltd.: 1973), p.2717.
- ^ Shire, Mohammed (2014). "Ali Matan Hashi (Cali Mataan Xaashi); first Somali pilot" Archived 2018-05-16 at the Wayback Machine "Somali Mind Blog"