Siad Barre — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Siad Barre; used for entity facts only. It recounts his disputed birth (c. 1919), the 1969 coup, his presidency of Somalia (1969–1991), his regime's ideology reconciling scientific socialism with Islamic tenets, his January 1975 execution of ten sheikhs who had opposed the new family law, his fall and his death in Lagos on 2 January 1995. Its text names no school for Barre personally.