In 1943, the year of its inauguration, Shermarke joined the incipient Somali Youth League political party.
On October 15, 1969, while paying a visit to the northern town of Las Anod, Somalia's then President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards.
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