What is Siad Barre?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Siad Barre<br />{{lang|ar|محمد سياد بري}} | image = Siad Barre.png | caption = Military portrait of [[Major General]] Mohamed Siad Barre. | birth_name = Mohamed Siad Barre | birth_date = 6 October 1919 | birth_place = [[Shilabo]], [[Ogaden]], [[Ethiopian Empire]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1995|1|2|1919|10|1|mf=y}} | death_place = [[Lagos]], [[Nigeria]] | office = 3rd [[List of Presidents of Somalia|President]] of [[Somalia]] | term_start = 21 October 1969 | term_end = 26 January 1991 | predecessor = [[Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein]] | successor = [[Ali Mahdi Muhammad]] | vicepresident = [[Muhammad Ali Samatar]] | party = [[Supreme Revolutionary Council]] (1969 - 1976) <br />[[Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party]] (1976 - 1991)<br>[[Somali United Front]] (1991 - 1992) | spouse = Khadija Maalin<br />Dalyad Haji Hashi | relations = [[Abdirahman Jama Barre]] }} '''Mohamed Siad Barre''' was the [[President]] of the [[Somali Democratic Republic]] from 1969 to 1991. In 1969 President [[Abdirashid Ali Shermarke]] was [[Assassination|assassinated]]. The military took power of the government. [[Major General]] Barre became the leader of the country. The new government used a form of [[socialism]] called [[scientific socialism]]. The country was renamed to the [[Somali Democratic Republic]]. In 1991 [[Somalia]] had a [[Somali Civil War|civil war]]. Barre was removed as the leader. He tried to take back the city of [[Mogadishu]] but lost. He then went into [[exile]]. Barre died on 2 January 1995.<ref>{{cite web |last=James |first=George |title= Somalia's Overthrown Dictator, Mohammed Siad Barre, Is Dead |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/03/obituaries/somalia-s-overthrown-dictator-mohammed-siad-barre-is-dead.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2 |publisher= New York Times |access-date=8 September 2016 |date=3 January