Mohammed Farah Aidid
| Mohamed Farrah Aidid محمد فرح عيديد |
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| Born |
December 15, 1934 Beledweyne, Somalia |
| Died | August 1, 1996 (aged 61) Mogadishu, Somalia |
| Political party | United Somali Congress/Somali National Alliance (USC/SNA) |
| Spouse(s) | Khadija Gurhan |
| Alma mater | Frunze Military Academy |
Mohamed Farrah Hassan Aidid (Somali: Maxamed Faarax Xasan Caydiid, Arabic: محمد فرح حسن عيديد; December 15, 1934 – August 1, 1996) was a Somali military commander and political leader. A former general and diplomat, he was the chairman of the United Somali Congress (USC) and later led the Somali National Alliance (SNA). Along with other armed opposition groups, they drove out President Mohamed Siad Barre's socialist regime from Somalia's capital Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War that broke out in the early 1990s.
In 1992, Aidid attacked United Nations troops in the nation. He was one of the main targets of the Unified Task Force. After eventually forcing UN forces to withdraw in 1995, Aidid declared himself President of Somalia until he was killed the following year.
Aidid was born in 1934 in Beledweyne, Italian Somaliland to a Habar Gidir family. He was educated in Rome and Moscow and served in the Italian colonial police force in the 1950s. He later joined the Somali National Army.
For advanced military training, Aidid studied at the Frunze Military Academy (Военная академия им. М. В. Фрунзе) in the Soviet Union, an elite institution reserved for the most qualified officers of the Warsaw Pact armies and their allies.
In 1969, a few days after the assassination of Somalia's second president Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, a military junta led by Major General Mohamed Siad Barre staged a bloodless coup d'état. Aidid was one of many officers serving at the central command of the Army at the time of the putsch. He quickly fell out of favour with the new regime's leaders and was subsequently detained. Aidid was eventually released from prison six years afterwards to take part in the 1977–78 war against Ethiopia over the disputed Ogaden region.
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