The Many Lives of a Somali Refugee
Published on December 27, 2011 by cabdulaahi · No Comments27 December,2011-:Mohammed Ahmed has been a professional school graduate from a wealthy family, a senior government official, a tortured refugee and an administrative assistant. Today, he is unemployed and surviving on welfare. Somalis live many lives in order to evade death, adapting to a country that is constantly transitioning from rebellions to civil war to drought to famine. Like his country, Mohammed’s future is uncertain.
In 1980, a young man with a degree in law and political science became a senior official in the Somali government. Somalia was coming to the end of almost exactly 11 years of a coup d’?tat led by Major General Barre that had established the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party (SRSP). The SRSP had attempted to merge progressive tenants of Islam with Marx socialism, but when Mohammed Ahmed joined the government, the party was disbanding and being replaced by the more totalitarian Supreme Revolutionary Council. Somalia had just lost a war against USSR- backed Ethiopia. After the Cold War, Somalia’s former ally, the United States, no longer found Somalia strategically important and the international spotlight on the country faded. With diminished visibility on the world stage, the Somali government became increasingly tyrannical; resistance movements (encouraged by Ethiopia) sprung up across the country.
Although public gatherings were prohibited and Somali freedom diminished, Mohammed Ahmed remained in his post, increasingly uncomfortable with President Barre’s reign of terror. Torture, disappearance and execution of government protestors were the political norm. Mohammed resigned in opposition in 1988, opened a private notary office in Mogadishu and began receiving death threats regularly. In 1991, the Somali government completely broke down and President Barre was ousted from power. The country dissolved into civil war between rival clans and Somalia’s infrastructure collapsed: at night, Mogadishu was pitch black because the city generators had been sold off, inflation was so high that coins worth nothing littered the streets, famine starved the population and within 6 months, between 1991 and 1992, 10,000 unarmed civilians were massacred in fighting.
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