- In December
1987, when Somali farmer
Farhan
Warfaa was just 17, he and other young
men from around the remote town of
Gebiley were rounded up and brought
to the headquarters of the Fifth Brigade of the Somali National Army for
questioning about a stolen water tank. Warfaa and the
other detainees were all members of Somalia’s persecuted
Isaaq clan.
Somalia’s then-president, Siad Barre, had deployed troops to the
country’s northwest to suppress the
Somalia National Movement (SNM), a rebel group formed by members of the disaffected Isaaq clan in 1981.
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