# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/siad-barre
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:51:53.558Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/siad-barre"
name: "Siad Barre"
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description: "He ruled Somalia for 21 years after seizing power in a 1969 coup, turning the country into a Marxist-Leninist state and later launching a disastrous war with Ethiopia. His regime's collapse in 1991 left Somalia in a civil war it has never escaped."
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birthDate: "1919-10-06"
deathDate: "1995-01-02"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Mohammed Siad Barre was commander of the Somali National Army when he took power on 21 October 1969, days after President Abdirashid Shermarke's assassination. His military junta reconstituted Somalia as a one-party Marxist-Leninist state, pursuing modernization, nationalization, cooperative farms, and a new Somali writing system while suppressing tribalism. In 1977 he launched the Ogaden War to capture Ethiopia's Somali region, and for seven months held virtually all of it — his peak popularity. Defeat by early 1978 severed Soviet ties and began his decline. Through the 1980s opposition mounted as his rule grew dictatorial, tribal politics returned, the National Security Service carried out the Isaaq genocide, and the economy collapsed. The Somali Rebellion forced him from power on 26 January 1991, triggering a civil war and power vacuum. He fled to exile in Nigeria, where he died of a heart attack in 1995.