Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Operation Eastern Exit" in English language version.
Mohamed Siad Barre...[was] president of Somalia who held dictatorial rule over the country from October 1969...until January 1991...Allegations of human rights abuses hurt his international standing.
Mohamed Siad Barre served as the president and military dictator of Somalia from 1969 to 1991...The Barre government committed several human rights abuses; citizens were subject to arbitrary arrests, detentions, torture, and executions.
It was the end of his 22-year rule in Somalia, which had..degenerated into dictatorship...The complex security paraphernalia and the paramilitary organisations so typical of all repressive states...were installed...Once so identified, whole areas were devastated. Among the first to suffer were the Majeerteen. But it was confrontation with the Isaak, the largest clan in the north, which revealed the depths which Siad and his relative-generals were prepared to plumb. The word genocide came to be used by international human rights observers...Siad reacted without any restraint: Hargeisa, the nation's second city...and other cities of the north were strafed, rocketed and bombed. In 1988 and 1989 columns of refugees were not spared...Despite the natural timidity of the [US State Department] (its human rights desk quite excepted) the (US) Congress was adamant: no human rights: no aid.]
At about 2 a.m. local time, Iraqi forces invade Kuwait, Iraq's tiny, oil-rich neighbor.
It was the end of his 22-year rule in Somalia, which had..degenerated into dictatorship...The complex security paraphernalia and the paramilitary organisations so typical of all repressive states...were installed...Once so identified, whole areas were devastated. Among the first to suffer were the Majeerteen. But it was confrontation with the Isaak, the largest clan in the north, which revealed the depths which Siad and his relative-generals were prepared to plumb. The word genocide came to be used by international human rights observers...Siad reacted without any restraint: Hargeisa, the nation's second city...and other cities of the north were strafed, rocketed and bombed. In 1988 and 1989 columns of refugees were not spared...Despite the natural timidity of the [US State Department] (its human rights desk quite excepted) the (US) Congress was adamant: no human rights: no aid.]
