The SRC launched a popular campaign against poverty, disease and ignorance
Evidence
Assisted by its civilian secretaries, the S.R.C. at once embarked on an energetic revitalisation of the country’s government, economy and social services. The aim, enjoying wide popularity, was to clean out the Augean stables and to restore Somali virtues with a realistic and concerted onslaught on the people’s real enemies: poverty, disease and ignorance. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 510
Categorization
- DEFINE: The SRC’s sloganized self-definition (‘poverty, disease, ignorance’) becomes the ideological frame of the entire Siyad revolution.
- XREF: connects to: The 21 October 1969 coup abolished parliament and established SRC rule — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 509
Related
- The 21 October 1969 coup abolished parliament and established SRC rule (similarity 0.80)