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The following lists events that happened during 1970 in Somalia.

Incumbents

Events

  • In April, Barre created the National Security Courts, judicial bodies which tried his political opponents and public critics[1]
  • On 10 September, the government enacted National Security Law No. 54, allowing the NSS to punish critics of the regime with indefinite detention without trial[2]
  • On 21 October, Barre declared Somalia a Socialist state run according to the principles of Scientific socialism, and banned diyya blood money[3]
  • Nuruddin Farah published From a Crooked Rib

Public holidays

Main article: Public holidays in Somalia

See also

References

  1. ^ Helen Chapin Metz (1993). Somalia: A Country Study. The Division. p. 187.
  2. ^ Liberty: Magazine of the Somali National Movement, Issues 2-4. The Movement. 1986. p. 15.
  3. ^ Judith Gardner and Judy El Bushra (2004). Somalia - The Untold Story: The War Through the Eyes of Somali Women. CIIR. p. 228.
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