Somalia, 1970 — dissident coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 27 April 1970, during the internal power struggle within the Supreme Revolutionary Council that had seized power in Somalia after Major General Siad Barre's bloodless coup of 21 October 1969. The SRC, formed following the assassination of President Abdirashid Shermarke, initially presented a collective leadership, with Lieutenant General Salaad Gabeyre Kediye holding the honorary title Father of the Revolution and Chief of Police Jama Ali Korshel as a leading figure alongside Barre. Over the following months Barre maneuvered to consolidate personal control, and early SRC figures were sidelined; one source records the removal of a senior member in March 1970.
Kediye and Vice President Mohamed Ainanshe Guleid were later charged with plotting to assassinate Barre and, together with Colonel Abdulkadir Dheel, were publicly executed by firing squad in 1972. The April 1970 coding sits in this early period of SRC factional plotting and purges as Barre entrenched his rule.
Researched Details
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Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
52004271970
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Barre consolidated personal control of the SRC; rivals were sidelined and later executed.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
CSP
Luttwak
The Guardian
LA Times
Washington Post
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