Human Rights

Published on August 7th, 2014 | by Sima Sahar Zerehi

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Mohamed Hassan Ismail Farah, Somalia’s new police boss, was on Canada’s suspected war criminals list

Members of Canada’s Somali community are expressing outrage that Somalia’s new police commissioner is a former Canadian refugee claimant who was identified by Ottawa in 2011 as a suspected war criminal.

Mohamed Hassan Ismail Farah came to Canada via the United States in 1991 following the downfall of the Siad Barre government. In Canada, he filed a refugee claim based on fear of being persecuted “because of his clan membership and his employment in the Somali Police Force under the Barre regime.”

“It’s very shocking, I can’t believe it,” said Mohamed Urdoh, a Toronto-based Somali-Canadian author and journalist specializing in human rights research.

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