From 1981 to May 1988 a harrowing well –planned campaign to eliminate an entire people become, succession of human rights abuse .murder ,detentions ,torture, unfair trails ,confiscation of the land other properties Constrains of freedom of the movement and expression, a strategy of humiliation directly at family life ,at women and elders ,the denial of the equal opportunities ,discriminatory business practices and curfews and checkpoints become daily affaire. Both urban centers and rural communities were targeted ,but it was nomadic population ,who suffered the most ,their men and boys were gunned down ,their women were raped ,their water reservoirs destroyed . and people as well as livestock were blown up by landmines ,and up to day those planted landmines continue to take more lives ,many whom I know lost their loves ones in that war .in the late may 1988,the SNM attacked the towns of Hargiesa and Burco. it was the star of the savage of war against ISAQ civilians which drov
