Barre purged Qorshel for accurately predicting the very coup Barre staged

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. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1512

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A sharp irony: a warning written to the government becomes the evidence used to destroy the whistleblower, even though events vindicate him.