Talk:Siad Barre

So what happened to him after '91? Went into exile IIRC. Ellsworth 15:18, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

You may wish to edit this entry in List of Dictators. Wizzy…☎ 21:40, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Pronunciation?

How is his name pronounced?

"See-ahd Barr". JamesMcCloud129 22:15, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. :) Josh 22:13, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

• Why isn't there any mention of his genocidal policies, the human rights abuses and the plundering of assets by his party?

http://www.internal-displacement.org/idmc/website/countries.nsf/(httpEnvelopes)/72D9A910CED0E420802570B8005AAB22?OpenDocument#sources

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/somalia5.htm

QUOTES from NY Times, January 3, 1995, Tuesday "In its final years, his Government steadily lost control of much of the countryside to the chiefs of warring clans, plunging the country into racking social and economic problems. Human rights groups issued reports citing a consistent pattern of political imprisonment, torture, political killings and discrimination against the Isaaks clan." NY Times, January 3, 1995, Tuesday

"In May 1988, fierce fighting broke out in the north between the Government and rebels who contended they had been discriminated against by the Siad Barre Government and were fighting for a more democratic Government. A report commissioned by the State Department and made public in September 1989 said the Somali Army "purposely murdered" at least 5,000 unarmed civilians over a 10-month period in the early phases. The Government denied the allegation. More than 10,000 people were reported killed in the months that followed, with allegations that the Somali military had bombed towns and strafed fleeing residents. Amnesty International said in August 1988 that since 1981 the Government had used torture and "widespread arbitrary arrests, ill treatment and summary executions" of civilians suspected of collaborating with the rebels." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.27.207.134 (talk) 07:30, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

• It seems as this article is very favourable to Barre, including a lot of plus-words. It seems to me that it should be completely rewritten.

Not that all very positive articles should be rubbed out. But this one deals with a ruthless dictator whose policies preceded a complete breakdown of his country.

/Janwiklund —Preceding unsigned comment added by Janwiklund (talk • contribs) 11:06, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

death

the dictator died from natural causes and not as a result of assasination

Are these reliable quotes?

I have removed this one in particular because of the explanation in brackets, but other quotes are also referenced from the same site.

"I am principally responsible for the transformation of this poor and rural country into a modern and progressive state. It is my exclusive prerogative to destroy what I have personally built." (translated from french from a Djiboutian msg board so not 100% reliable-feel free to replace with more reliable source) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Czar Kirk (talk • contribs) 18:53, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

This whole article smacks of being written in a partial manner by a supporter of Siad Barre. There is no objectivity or balance here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.77.124.173 (talk) 19:14, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Neutrality of the Article

I have the feeling that this whole article is slightly biased towards Barre. I noticed the very little sources used for all that information, which I couldn't verify outright, since it's from a book. Notice that in the section "Head of State" only one citation is made. I believe we should either put the neutrality of this article under dispute or then wikify the whole article so it better fits the Wikipedia policies for neutral point of wiew.

D4RK-L3G10N (talk) 18:25, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

agreed - this is an incredibly biased article - which is very bad when you are talking about a genocidal dictator in a region with a current civil war. he killed dozens of thousand Somali citizens, this article focuses on his language reforems!