It is difficult to defeat a super power in a battlefield and
live to savour the victory unmolested. When a super power loses
a conventional war, it resorts to unconventional methods to
extract revenge. This became abundantly clear to Somalia, whose
guerrilla fighters outwitted Britain when the two sides met in a
mismatched bush encounter. Long after the war, the might of the
gun was used. Combatants and non-combatant were forced to pay
for the price of defiance by their ragtag army that had in the
eyes of administrators committed the ultimate crime of killing a
British sub Commissioner. As residents of Kismayu and Afmadow
retreated to the wilderness where some hid in foxholes to evade
the wrath of the British troops, the superior guns were turned
on the civilians as they captured all the livestock they came
across. Atoning for sins This as the administrators would later
explain in their interoffice memos was aimed at atoning for the
sins of the elusive fighters, who had the tendency of fleeing
together with t