CBATV English – A photo of Somalia president Mohamed Abdillahi Farmajo with convicted torturer has attracted wide condemnation. President Farmajo posed for the photo with colonel Ahmed Yusuf Tuke at the opening Somalia’s new embassy in Washington.
The former head of Somalia’s National Intelligence Service Abdillahi Sanbalooshe said president Farmaajo has made his hostility and hatred for specific Somali clans.
Ahmed Moalim Fiqi a member of the federal parliament and former head of National spy agency in his part apologized to the people of Somaliland for the hurt that the photo caused.
Colonel Yusuf Abdi Tuke was found guilty of torture and ordered damages to his victim from Somaliland’s Gabiley district in May 2019.
Colonel Tuke was a commander of the fifth brigade of Somalia’s army stationed in then North-Western region during the vicious crackdown on the civilians of the area in the late 1980s.
After the collapse of the central government in 1991 he fled to the United States then entered Canada. However, due to reports in the Canadian media, he was forced to flee Canada and return to the United States.
Some of the victims of his alleged atrocities have ever since tracked him in an attempt to sue him in the courts of the United States. Finally in May 2019, after much delays, he was convicted of torture in a Virginian court and was ordered to compensate one of his victims, Ali Warfaa.
By Hussein Jama
September 29, 2019
