Siyad’s dialectical rhetoric manufactured perpetual enemies to justify unlimited state power.

Evidence

The intriguing fact that this ‘top secret’ plan, addressed to the Head of State, subsequently found its way into the public domain outside Somalia suggested that it might have been deliberately leaked to fuel friction between its author’s (Majerteyn) clan supporting the SSDF and the SNM Isaq who were the target of the proposed military reprisals. This would be consistent with the divide-and-rule tactics on which the President was increasingly relying. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 599 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Siyad used divide-and-rule tactics to pit clans against each other — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 599

Related

• Siyad used divide-and-rule tactics to pit clans against each other (similarity 0.89)
• Siyad-era factionalism mixed clan, ideology, and colonial tradition divides (similarity 0.85)
• Somalis coded clan power blocs as dates to critique Siyad’s rule safely (similarity 0.79)
• Siyad’s factional politics mixed clan, ideology, and colonial traditions, not just lineage. (similarity 0.79)
• Siyad’s survivalist rule reinforced clan segmentation to Ethiopia’s advantage (similarity 0.79)
• Siyad’s political survival rested on manipulating clan segment representation (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Siyad used divide-and-rule tactics to pit clans against each other #expands (0.60) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 599