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Youths bring violence from a war-torn land
By Ben Fenton and Mike Pflanz, East Africa Correspondent
(Filed: 20/05/2006)

The search for a youth of Somali origin in connection with the murder of Kiyan Prince will add to the woes of community leaders trying to dispel the association of immigrants from the Horn of Africa with violent crime.

In recent years, Somalis have been connected with some of the most high-profile murders in Britain and been on the receiving end of criticism from senior figures in other ethnic minority communities.

Mustafa Jama, 25, whose family is part of the large Somali population centred on a mosque in Plumstead, south-east London, is wanted for the murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky.

His 19-year-old brother, Yusuf, has already been charged with that crime.

One of the four men awaiting trial for the attempted suicide bombings on the London Underground last July 21, Yassin Hassan Omar, is a Somali.

Another Somali, Abdulrahman Osman, raped a 40-year-old woman shortly after he had been released from a three-year sentence for robbery, but had not been deported.

Last January, a 19-year-old Somali man was stabbed to death at a north London bus stop by other Somalis from a different part of the city.

In the past six months, Somali youths have been blamed by a Labour MP for a spate of street robberies in Southall, west London, and in south London tensions between Britons of Afro-Caribbean origin and Somalis were brought to public attention by Darcus Howe, a commentator on ethnic minority affairs.

Mohamud Gure, a community leader in Islington, north London, said: "We are very, very alarmed by what is happening to Somali youth in this country.

"This is the first generation of Somalis who have come into adolescence here and there is a great deal of frustration and poverty and alienation and anger.

"They are frustrated because they do not feel supported by the Somali community or by the Government and I think many are disillusioned by life here because they do not see Somali role models who have made successes of themselves."

Mr Gure, who trained as an economist before coming to Britain five years ago, said that the only role model young Somalis had was the BBC journalist Rageh Omar.

"They are confused. Really confused.

"The Government and the existing Somali community has to do something about this as a matter of urgency.

"There must be intervention at school level to give these youngsters a sense that they can achieve something in this country.

"Many of them still carry the trauma with them that they brought from Somalia as very young children.

"Some of them even saw their parents killed in front of them. Many have no father because he was killed in the chaos of Somalia.

"Some of them react by using violence, but it is only a very small minority because Somalis are a peace-loving people in general."

There are at least 100,000 Somalis in Britain, with up to 6,000 a year coming in as asylum seekers when the anarchy in their homeland grew worse in the late 1990s and early part of this century.

They did not as a rule move in among the settled Somali communities in cities such as Cardiff, Bristol, Liverpool, Hull and South Shields, whose presence was linked to the reputation of the coastal peoples of the Horn of Africa as good and uncomplaining seamen.

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