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TIL of the Isaaq Genocide. Also known as the "Hargeisa Holocaust", it was the systematic, state-sponsored genocide of Isaaq civilians between 1987 and 1989 by the Somali Democratic Republic, under the dictatorship of Siad Barre, during the Somaliland War of Independence.

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