The SRC replaced traditional blood-compensation with the death sentence

Evidence

At the same time, to discourage the interminable blood feuds between lineages which had done so much to undermine national solidarity in the past, the death sentence was introduced to replace the blood compensation (diya) paid traditionally between groups. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 511

Categorization

• XREF: The diya/blood-compensation institution recurs throughout Lewis’s corpus as core to Somali segmentary lineage; abolishing it is a major rupture. — 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
• QUESTION: Worth tracing how this abolition of diya plays out in the later chapters on Siyad’s rule.

Related

• Blood-compensation liability reform lay at the roots of Somali clan politics (similarity 0.79)
• The 21 October 1969 coup abolished parliament and established SRC rule (similarity 0.79)