The Supreme Revolutionary Council was the governmental body that ruled Somalia from 1969 to 1976.
Supreme Revolutionary Council, 1969
Somali dictator Siad Barre
Somali Democratic Republic
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The Somali Democratic Republic was a communist state with a unitary system of government in Somalia that existed from 1969 to 1991.
Supreme Revolutionary Council (Somalia)
…General Mohamed Ainanshe Guled and Chief of Police Jama Korshel. Shortly afterwards Barre became the head of the SRC. The SRC renamed the country the Somali Democratic Republic, arrested members of the former civilian government, banned political parties, dissolved the parliament and the Supreme Court, and suspended the…
The Somali–Soviet Union friendship and later partnership with the United States enabled Somalia to build the largest mechanised army on the continent.
Somali National Army soldier stands between two captured Ethiopian BTR-60 armored carriers that were disabled in battle.
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