1970 in Somalia

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In April, Barre created the National Security Courts, judicial bodies which tried his political opponents and public critics^[1]
On 10 September, the government enacted National Security Law No. 54, allowing the NSS to punish critics of the regime with indefinite detention without trial^[2]
On 21 October, Barre declared Somalia a Socialist state run according to the principles of Scientific socialism, and banned diyya blood money^[3]
Nuruddin Farah published From a Crooked Rib

^ Helen Chapin Metz (1993). Somalia: A Country Study. The Division. p. 187.
^ Liberty: Magazine of the Somali National Movement, Issues 2-4. The Movement. 1986. p. 15.
^ Judith Gardner and Judy El Bushra (2004). Somalia - The Untold Story: The War Through the Eyes of Somali Women. CIIR. p. 228.

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