Northern deputies demanded an all-Northern coup investigation committee

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.” US Department of State, Foreign Service Dispatch 94, December 15, 1961, US National Archives. The proposal fizzled and was abandoned by the advocates when they realized that a civil court would adjudicate the case. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1379

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Connects to the North-South regional tension theme running through the reader’s interest in how the 1960 union strained under regional grievances.

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