The Suicidal State in Somalia: The Rise and Fall of the Siad Barre Regime, 1969-1991

383 Pages·2016·2.9 MB·English

by  Mohamed Haji Ingiriis

The Suicidal State in Somalia
The Rise and Fall
of the Siad Barre Regime,
1969–1991
Mohamed Haji Ingiriis
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IdedicatethisbooktoallSomalipeoplewhosuffered
(wittinglyorunwittingly)
onewayoranotherunderthemilitaryregimeofSiadBarre

‘Hadalninbadiyeynamawadaoran,ninyareeyeynakamawadategin’
ASomalisaying

Contents
ListofTables ix
ListofAbbreviations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
NoteonSomaliOrthographyandTransliteration xvii
Introduction 1
I:TheColonialStateandSchooling:Tribulation 15
1 TheGenealogiesofAfricanDictatorship(s) 17
2 ACriticalAppraisal:TheStateandSocietyinPerspective 37
II:TheCaptureoftheState:Totalitarianism 63
3 SiadBarreandtheSomaliState:TheActorandtheAction 65
4 TheDialecticsofDictatorshipandDomination 93
III:FromClanisedtoCriminalisedState:Tyranny 117
5 Plunder,PredatoryPowerandPoliticalEconomy 119
6 ThePoliticsofthe1977WarandItsRamifications 137
IV:TheCalamityoftheState:TheTerror 165
7 TheExploitationofClanasPoliticalResource 167
8 TheFamilyAffairandtheAbsenceofEscape 189
9 TheTurningPointsandtheEndingPoint 203
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V:TheCacophonyofControl:TheTorment 219
10 TheOutbreakoftheUprising:TheDownfall 221
11 TheRealityandRealignmentof1991 241
Conclusion 267
Notes 275
SubjectIndex 353
NameIndex 359