Document #1297060
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Information on the Leelkase clan can be
found in Responses to previous Information Requests Nos. SOM2166
and SOM2226, both available in Toronto.
Although the following does not deal with
the Leelkase, it may help shed some light on the overall treatment
of clan members the government may find "potentially disloyal".
Keesing's Record of World Events reported that in early
September numerous Somali government officials in Mogadishu who
were members of the Isaaq clan had been dismissed from their posts.
At the same time, it was reported that several Isaaq diplomats at
Somali missions overseas had defected to the West rather than
responding to recall orders by the government in May and July of
1989. [ Keesing's Record of World Events 1989, Vol. 35, No.
6, p. 36758.] According to the manager of COSTI, there are very few
Isaaqs who currently occupy positions of authority in the civil
service, the military or the police. Nearly all Isaaqs in the armed
forces have been dismissed, and some have been detained. Some Isaaq
military personnel of lower ranks have been posted to areas where
they would be isolated, without their relatives or clan
members.
Corroborating information regarding the
above oral source is currently unavailable to the IRBDC.