The N.F.D. delegation on the other hand asked why they should not be accorded the same rights as their kinsmen in the former British Somaliland Protectorate whose independence and union with Somalia had taken place under British auspices. If the principle of self-determination meant anything, they urged, it certainly could not mean the enforced suppression of their national and legitimate integrity.

I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Som…, loc. 464