Some Somali officials privately called a ministerial purge the St. Bartholomew’s massacre

Evidence

On the night of January 27-28, now known among some top local Western educated officials as the St. Bartholomew’s massacre, the Council of Ministers met for 19 straight hours and, with each minister having a chance to speak for the Director General of his ministry, went over the dossiers and made the decisions. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 788

Categorization

• QUESTION: What exactly happened during the night of January 27-28 that earned this name? The paragraph appears cut off here.
• XREF: The moniker evokes the 1572 St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre in France; a naming pattern of importing European historical violence labels into postcolonial politics.