A general who warned of a coup was later purged for it

Evidence

It was later reported that the reason behind the accusation of Qorshel was not so much that he was planning a coup but that the regime found reports he wrote to Egal concerning the possibility of a military coup. These reports were discovered in Egal’s office, and it is said that Barre took this as a personal attack, although in retrospect Qorshel was proved right by the events. Hussen, interview by the author, October 2002. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1512

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the recurring tragedy of Cassandra-figures whose accurate warnings get them punished — recalls the earlier arc of political warnings throughout the book.