Dokument #1071173
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Information on the presence of the Midgan
in Hargeisa and their treatment by the Issaq prior to and after the
1988 war could not be found among the sources consulted by the
Research Directorate. However according to Cultural Survival
Quarterly, the Midgan originated in the north of the country
(30 Apr. 1994) . The Midgan comprises with the Timal and Yabir the
three subgroups of the Sab clan which has traditionally been
bondsmen of the Issak and Darold clans (ibid). "The stigma still
remains" even though this practice was abolished after
independence, added the same source. According to a 7 December 1992
Press Associated Newsfile report, the Midgan, also named
"untouchables", are among the farming communities who lost their
land into the hands of the fierce nomadic clan.
Please refer to Responses to Information
Requests SOM23679.E and DJI25970.E of 26 April 1996 and 13 January
1997 respectively for a profile of the Midgan clan.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is
not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any
particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the
list of sources consulted in researching this Information
Request.
References
Cultural Survival Quarterly. 30 April
1994. de Waal Alex. "The UN and Somalia's Invisible Minorities."
(The Ethnic News Watch /NEXIS)
Press Association Newsfile. 7 December
1992. Aidan Hartley. "Somalia Shattered by Clan Hatreds.
(NEXIS)
Attachments
Cultural Survival Quarterly. 30 April
1994. de Waal Alex. "The UN and Somalia's Invisible Minorities."
(The Ethnic News Watch /NEXIS)
Press Association Newsfile. 7 December
1992. Aidan Hartley. "Somalia Shattered by Clan Hatreds.
(NEXIS)
Sources Consulted
Africa Confidential [London].
1990 - February 1998
Africa Research Bulletin: Political,
Social and Cultural Series [London]. 1991-1996.
Gilkes, P.S. September 1994. The
Price of Peace: Somalia and the United Nations 1991-1994.
Bedfordshire, U.K.: Save the Children's Fund.
Indian Ocean Newsletter
[Paris]. 1992 to present.
The Invention of Somalia.
Edited by Ali Jamale Ahmed. 1995. Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea
Press.
Keesing's Record of World
Events [Cambridge]. 1996-1997.
Lewis, I. M. 1994. Blood and Bone:
The Call of Kinship in Somali Society. Lawrenceville, NJ: The
Red Sea Press.
_____. 1988. Rev. ed. A Modern History
of Somalia: Nation and State in the Horn of Africa. Boulder, Col.:
Westview Press.
Resource Centre country file: Somalia.
1991-February 1998.
Electronic sources: IRB Databases,
Global News Bank, Lexis/Nexis, Internet, World News Connection
(WNC).
One oral source consulted did not
provide information on the above-mentioned subjects.