Italian authorities suppressed early Somali nationalist meetings
Evidence
When, with Mahamud Harbi still in office, it was announced that this latter aim had prevailed, an extremely confused situation developed. This was resolved by the intervention of the French authorities who dissolved the assembly and arranged for new elections to he held on 23 November, 1958. … Mahamud Harbi subsequently fled to Cairo, and later to Mogadishu where, in 1959, he participated in the formation of the National Pan-Somali Movement. His short but eventful political career ended in October of the following year when he was killed in an air crash while on his way back to Mogadishu from a visit to China and Eastern Europe. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 452 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: French intervention crushed nationalist Somali leadership in French Somaliland — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 452; Italian administrators pursued a divide-and-rule strategy to split Somalis into rival tribal states
Related
- French intervention crushed nationalist Somali leadership in French Somaliland (similarity 0.90)
- French policy insulated the CĂ´te from wider Somali nationalist advance (similarity 0.82)
- Italian administrators pursued a divide-and-rule strategy to split Somalis into rival tribal states (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- French intervention crushed nationalist Somali leadership in French Somaliland
#corroborates(0.40) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 452 - Italian administrators pursued a divide-and-rule strategy to split Somalis into rival tribal states
#expands(0.30)