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ICE officials in Washington, DC, deported a high-ranking former Somali military they say carried out torture, terror and other human rights violations against the civilian population.
The officer, 71-year-old Yusuf Abdi Ali, also known as “Tukeh,” was deported from the United States for ICE officials on December 20. He was a lieutenant colonel in the Somali National Army and commander of the Fifth Brigade in north-west Somalia during the Siad Barre dictatorship from 1987 to 1989.
As a high-ranking officer in the Somali National Army, Ali allegedly oversaw terrorist activities against the Isaaq clan in northwestern Somalia. He is believed to have carried out a series of human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings, torture and arbitrary detention.
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According to a Dec. 23 statement by ICE, the Somali National Army committed numerous human rights violations against civilians in those years, including executing suspected political opponents, burning entire villages, using il ·legal land mines and the destruction of water reservoirs. address the civilian population.
In February 2024, a Department of Justice The immigration judge issued a 65-page decision finding that Ali personally participated in the torture while in charge of the Somali National Army. According to the decision, Ali ordered soldiers under his command to detain, torture and assist in extrajudicial killings. The judge ordered his transfer to Somalia.
The American law firm, the Center for Justice & Accountability, which has represented one of Ali’s alleged victims, Farhan Warfaa, calls him “one of the most ruthless commanders” of the Barre Somalia dictatorship. Warfaa was kidnapped as a teenager by soldiers under Ali’s command, held for months, beaten repeatedly and finally shot and left for dead.
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Soldiers patrol outside the Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, August 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
Warfaa ended up surviving, and in 2019 a federal civil court in Alexandria, Virginia found Ali liable for her torture.
Ali lived as a permanent resident in Springfield, Virginia until National security investigations arrested him in November 2022.
“The United States will not be a safe haven for those who commit human rights violations, and we will persist in our efforts to seek justice for the victims of these crimes,” said Russell Hott, Washington’s acting executive associate director. , DC. ICE enforcement and removal operations.
Hott said that “although justice was delayed in this case, it was finally served.”
