How many other war criminals in Somaliland? What is that man they call Cawil Faqash?
This is from Rakiya Oomaar, sister of Rageh Oomaar, and long time researcher for Human Rights Watch:
You talk about justice and you wonder why people laugh at you and call out your hypocrisy. This is nothing about hypcrisy. This is about tribalism without care for the victims on any side. Well guess what?Witnesses who are alive also recall Rayaale’s contribution to the war against civilians. One of the people I interviewed in Djibouti in August 1989 and who is cited in the book is Abdifatah Abdillahi Jirreh. He was only 14 at the time, but he remembered Dahir Rayaale.
One day in mid-August [1988], Dahir Rayaale, head of the NSS, came to our ice plant and took my father away. They also arrested one of the watchmen, an old man, Farah Badeh Gheedi. They were detained in the police station, accused of talking about the prospects of the SNM coming to Berbera.
Rayaale is not the only man who has held a senior political position in Somaliland whose conduct of human rights has been questioned. Many former Isaaq members of the NSS and the HANGASH, the military police that came to exert formidable power over civilians, today occupy key positions in Somaliland in the NSS, re-established in 1995, and the Criminal Investigations Department (CID). The people they tortured, interrogated and spied on, and the people whose loved ones they killed, will, one day, no doubt give their own account.
http://www.somalitalk.com/editorial/riyale.html
Cali Samantar is more laandheer then any man in Somaliland having large swathes of Somalis behind him as well as the backing for friendly countries around the world.
Didn't they work for the same government?
