North-South parliamentary distrust exploded over the coup investigation

Evidence

According to US embassy reports, many Northern MPs insisted on this, which led to a number of MPs coming to blows with one another: “Assembly President Jama Abdillahi Galib adjourned the parliament when it broke into pandemonium of shoe-throwing over a demand by Northern deputies that a proposed committee to investigate the abortive coup d’etat should consist exclusively of Northerners. Subsequently the Northern deputies have boycotted the Assembly, which is proceeding in relative calm to debate the national budget for 1962.” — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1379

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• XREF: connects to: Partisan bias charges escalated into a coup conspiracy narrative — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 91