The ousted Osman-Hussen team refrained from using state power against political opponents.

Evidence

Osman enjoyed his new freedom by often taking walks in various areas of the city and traveling freely outside Mogadishu. As Yusuf Dhuhul noted in his remarks nearly two decades later, such freedom was possible because the Osman-Hussen team lived by the country’s democratic constitution, and at no time while in power did they use state power to punish their political opponents. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 985

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to questions of democratic norms in young postcolonial African states and how ousted leaders were treated vs. what followed.