Soviet support enabled Somalia’s military to seize power in 1969

Evidence

The Soviets supported the Somali military, whose leaders were dismayed by political developments in the country but who also saw the regime as a menace to its own affairs and realized the murder of the president was a god-sent opportunity to act. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1073

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the sacrifice article: a president’s murder providing a ‘god-sent opportunity’ to seize power is a reminder of how sacrificial/death events can be cynically instrumentalized by power-seekers.