sentences:  From 1986 to 1988, as a general, he was the military commander of the 26th Sector (the region of Somaliland) and in September 1990 he was appointed as minister of defense and substitute head of state.Before the fall of the government and the subsequent 1991 civil war, Morgan was recognized as a state-sponsored war criminal.Morgan was one of the main government officials who spearheaded the state sponsored genocide in Somaliland( "Northern Somalia") against the Isaaq Clan.