A Horribly Troubled Place
"The man handed himself in and is in custody now. I think he is not mentally fit but we are questioning him."
Col. Isak Ali Abdulle, Somalian Police Force
In Somalia, police have arrested 60-year-old Omar Hassan. He is the father of 11, 9, 7 and 6-year-old children. Their mother is 29-year-old Qadro Addawe. Their children, explained Ms. Addae, had never been to Canada. Their father had emigrated to Canada 30 years before. And presumably visited from time to time, explaining the birth of the four children.
"He had some health problems, but he had no mental problems.
"They were born in Kenya, but they were Canadian because the father was Canadian."
Qadro Addawe, Mogadishu
The four boys, according to their mother, were beheaded by their father. She has no idea why. As far as she is concerned, no motive for the father of their four boys existed for him to destroy their lives. Let alone so gruesomely. Their bodies were found near a village, according to a regional police commissioner, and were buried.
The killings were said to have taken place in the central town of Beledweyne, about 330 kilometres north of Somalia's capital Mogadishu. Her husband Hassan, said Ms. Addawe, was a taxi driver in Calgary. He had returned home to Somalia a few months earlier.
"The community is very sad about it. It's unheard of", said Mohamed Jama, president of the Somali Canadian Society of Calgary, who pointed out that neither he nor others in their group knew Hassan.
Beheadings are certainly not unknown in Somalia. They are particularly favoured by Islamists. It is the way that the American journalist Daniel Pearl met his death.
The viciously Islamist group al-Shabab, associated with al-Qaeda, practise beheading those they are particularly not fond of. So it is not 'unknown' in Somalia. What is unknown is why a father would do such a horrible thing to his four young children.
Labels: Atrocities, Child Abuse, Crime, Family, Somalia
posted by Pieface @ Friday, October 04, 2013
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