Abdirashid Shermarke

Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke (8 June 1919Rulers.org profile - Abdirashid Ali ShermarkeEncyclopaedia Hispano-Americana, supplement 1969-1970, p.289.Arab Observer, Issues 185-197, (University of California: 1964), p.32. – 15 October 1969), also known as Abdirashid Shermarke,Farley, Benjamin R. "Calling a state a state: Somaliland and international recognition." Emory Int'l L. Rev. 24 (2010): 777. was Prime Minister of Somali Republic from 12 July 1960 to 14 June 1964. He was President of Somalia from 6 July 1967, until his assassination on October 15, 1969.Somalia - Worldstatesmen.com He was the father of Somali Prime Minister Omar Sharmarke.

On 15 October 1969, while visiting the northern town of Las Anod, Sharmarke was shot by one of his own bodyguards.Moshe Y. Sachs, Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, Volume 2, (Worldmark Press: 1988), p.290. Sharmarke's assassination was quickly followed by a military coup d'état on 21 October 1969, the day after his funeral.

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