- Title: [SW Country] The Genocide File (pages1 & 2) - Genocide - by
Canadian Network on Human Rights in Somalia - Released in Toronto in March
1991
- Posted by/on: [AAJ][19 Jan 2000]
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The Genocide
File
Genocide
by Canadian Network on Human Rights in Somalia - Released
in Toronto in March 1991
Brief
This document was released by the Canadian Network on Human Rights
in Somalia in Toronto on March 9, 1991 in a protest march in front of the City Hall,
Downtown Toronto. The release describes acts and lists victims of genocide committed
in Mogadishu. It also lists some of the alleged perpetrators of the genocide. The reader
may recognize some of the names (both victims and alleged perpetrators) listed in the
document.
CANADIAN NETWORK ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN SOMALIA
PRESS RELEASE
Toronto, March 9, 199
Genocide!"
We draw the attention of the World Community to the genocide being committed by the USC in
Somalia. We draw the attention of the Canadians public to the systematic execution of
thousands of innocent civilians for the simple reason that they belong to certain Tribes:
Darod & Reer Mohamund Salah.
Magnitude of the Genocide.
Reports coming from Mombassa (Kenya) refugee camp paint horrible brutalities unprecedented
in the history of Somalia. These reports are based on interviews with survivors of the
genocide:
1. In the 1st week of February, the U.S.C. rounded up, from Mogadishu,
thousands of civilians, most of whom were professionals like doctors,
Engineers, teachers, etc. and summarily executed them.
2. Systematic gang rape on women
3. The use of axes to execute the civilians
4. forceful evictions of families from their homes
5. Mass looting of the properties of the fleeing refugees.
6. At the end of February, the U.S.C extended its brutal actions, to
such towns as Afgoye, Merca, Brava, Jilib and Luuq Jelow where it waslearned that
thousands more civilians were killed.
7. On March 1st, U.S.C. Guerilla Forces entered Galgayo on a hit and run
mission, thereby killing hundreds of elderly, women and children.
8. The U.S.C. is also holding thousands more civilians as hostages.
Some of the Victims In the Genocide:
1. Prof. Ibrahim Abyan - Former president of the Somali National University
2. Abdurahman Shiek Hassan (ISFIIL1TO) - Human rights Lawyer
3. Hassan Hashi Fiqi . Lawyer/businessman
4. Dr. Muhumed Mohamed Omer - Medical doctor
5. Mohamed Gurey - Commercial pilot
6. Nassir Abdullahi Jama - Commercial pilot
7. Musa Yusef - Educator
8. Prof. Abdulaziz Shiek Ismail
9. Halima Ismail Qablan - Nurse
10. Dr. Abdi Ahmed Tuuhe - U.N. Staff
11. Abdullahi Haji Hashi Divie - businessman
12. Bashir Mohamed Ali - Civil Servant
13. Shiek Abdi Ciid - Community Leader
14. Ahmed Jama Nur - Senior Somali Airlines official
15. Bashir Mohamad Ali - Civil Servant
16. Abdinoor Aden Mohamed - University Student
Consequences of the Genocide
As a result of these atrocities, about 700,000 to 1,000,000 civilians have fled from
Mogadishu and its surrounding areas. The majority of these refugees are now in Kismayo,
(pop. 160,000) near the border of Kenya. As Kismaayo is too small to contain this large
scale influx of the people, the refugees are at the moment without the basic necessities
of food and shelter. Some of them have already become so desperate that they are risking
their lives and are crossing the ocean on unsafe, dingy boats. According to a CNN report
of March 2, about 100 of these refugees have died in the sea when their boat sank near
Mombassa.
Betrayal of the Somali People's Aspirations
The U.S.C. has betrayed all Somali democrats who have over the years laid down their
lives, families and careers on the line, in order to defeat the Barre dictatorship. The
U.S.C. can not now claim that it alone has defeated the Barre dictatorship. Indeed, it is
well documented that the popular will of all Somalis has for a long time been engaged in a
bitter struggle to end that dictatorship. During the last days of the fall of the Barre
regime, all of the following forces were allied to work for a genuine democracy: S.N.M.,
S.S.D.F., S.P.M., U.S.C., Manifesto I group, business people, student and intellectuals.
Unfortunately, the U.S.C. has betrayed us all. Why did the U.S.C. have to unilaterally
announce the formation of "a provisional government", contrary to the agreement
reached earlier with all opposition groups that a broad-based consultative body
representing all political views be entrusted with the naming of a Transitional
government? Why the haste in naming a provisional government? The simple answer to this
questions is that the U.S.C. had a hidden agenda all along: It simply was interested in
raw power to advance its Tribal ambitions. This fact is clearly explained by its sudden,
clan-based, Inkatha-lype campaign of murder, and rape directed systematically against
innocent civilians.
Equally obnoxious however, is the fact that the U.S.C. has also shamelessly
incorporated many of Barre's senior government officials into its leadership. The sole
criteria for keeping these officials is that they belong to the tribe that the U.S.C.
draws its members from. A quick glance at these personalities clearly proves quite
revealing.
1. Hussein Kulmie Afrah - Vice President for 21 years
in the Barre regime.
2. Ali Mahdi (head of the U.S.C.'s so-called
provisional government) - Former business partner with the SIAD Barre family.
3. Abdullahi Ahmed Addow - Somali ambassador in
Washington for over 10 and Minister of the Presidency during the last few years of
the Barre regime.
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4. General Mohamed Nur Galaal - deputy defence minister
for over 5 years in the Barre regime.
5. General Mohamed Farah Aideed - a former aid de camp
and bodyguard to Siad Barre. He also served as Somali ambassador to India until he was
fired in May, 1990.
6. General Ahmed Jilicow - head of the National
Security Service in the Barre regime. He was also in charge of the infamous
"Godka" prison for a long time.
7. Colonel Mohamed Hassan Shabeel - a former division
commander in the Barre regime who was responsible for the Genocide in Northern Somalia in
1988.
- We are outraged and angry that civilians had to flee for their safety, while those
notorious things (from the Barre regime) are welcomed into the leadership of the U.S.C.
- We urge the international community to condemn the crimes being committed against
innocent civilians!
- We ask the Canadian public to show in solidarity, their outrage against this barbarism!
- We ask the prime Minister of Canada, and the leader of her majesty's loyal
opposition to condemn the U.S.C., its leader Ali Mahdi, and his clique of criminals
that are murdering the civilians in Somalia!
- We condemn the U.S.C.'s betrayal of all Somali people's true aspirations for
a working democracy where all the people could coexist in peace.
Endorsed by the:
- Somali Community in Toronto - Somali Community in Montreal
- Somali Community in Ottawa -Somali Community in Cambridge,Ont.
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