Major conflict1987 – 1989 · 2 years

Isaaq genocide

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Hargeisa · Burao · Berbera

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Barre's bombing and ground campaign against the Isaaq killed an estimated 50–200,000 people.

Belligerents2

Somalia
Somali National Movement

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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