Dokument #1147414
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
1. It was in January 1983 that the Somali
National Movement attacked Mandera prison and released hundreds of
prisoners including a dozen political prisoners. [ Africa South
of the Sahara 1986, Fifteenth Edition, (London: Europa
Publications Ltd., 1986), p.839.] This information is corroborated
in Somalia Nation in Search of a State (1987).
The Toronto office of Amnesty International
is unable to provide a list of the names of people who were
transferred from Hargeisa to Mandera prison.
Attached please find the following documents:
1. David D. Laitin and Said S. Samatar, Somalia Nation in Search
of a State, (London: Westview Press, 1987), pp.92-95.
2. Africa South of the Sahara 1986, Fifteenth Edition,
(London: Europa Publications Ltd., 1986), pp.838-839.