92% match; BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom ; 12-Feb-2000 12:00:00 am ; 121 words
Officers of the California State immigration department are looking for eyewitnesses
and documents that may have information on the role of Abd al-Rahman Jama Barreh
(Buluk-Buluk) in the massacre of 45 members of the Isaq clan in Jasiira [southernern
Mogadishu beach] on 14th July 1989. Abd al-Rahman Jama Barreh was then finance minister in
the Siyad Bareh's government.
Officials who requested anonymity told this paper that the US immigration officers had
contacted relevant Somaliland agencies to provide them with information on the killings.
The California State immigration department rejected the former finance minister's
application for American citizenship.
Abd al-Rahman Jama Barreh, half brother to the late Somali dictator, and Maslah, the
dictator's son who was the commander of the 77th army division, are believed to have
ordered the massacre