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  • Exporting Justice
    The Recorder
    One morning in November 1981, three armed Somali security officers showed up at Bashe Abdi Yousuf's warehouse. They pushed him into a Land Cruiser, drove him to a detention center and tortured him for two months...
    April 18, 2005
    Somali Expatriots Charged with War Crimes
    The Washington Post
    A California-based human rights group has filed lawsuits accusing two Somali residents of Northern Virginia of war crimes, including ordering torture, killings, rapes and other acts of brutality against a rival clan during the 1980s when they held positions of power in their homeland...
    November 11, 2004

    A safe haven, but for whom??
    US News and World Report
    One evening last year, a 35-year-old Somali computer analyst was visiting a friend in a quiet Virginia suburb when he encountered a man whose name he had heard and cursed a thousand times but whom he had never expected to see–especially here. The computer analyst (fearing retribution, he asked to use the pseudonym Omer) says he was stunned. It turns out the other guest was Mohamed Ali Samatar...
    November 15, 1999



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