There has been a recent spike of violence in the Somali Diaspora against Somali women?
On or about October 19, 2010, a Somali man allegedly killed his wife in Norway and then stuffed her body into the trunk of their car. The man proceeded to use the car for his daily errands, including driving their young sons, ages 5 and 4, to school. Four months later, when the car broke down, the Norwegian police discovered the frozen body of his wife.
In 2009, another Somali man, Mustafa Farah, 51, who was living in the United Kingdom, allegedly strangled his young bride, Naima Mohamed Moalim, 31, only three days after she had arrived from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to join him.
On or about October 19, 2010, a Somali man allegedly killed his wife in Norway and then stuffed her body into the trunk of their car. The man proceeded to use the car for his daily errands, including driving their young sons, ages 5 and 4, to school. Four months later, when the car broke down, the Norwegian police discovered the frozen body of his wife.
In 2009, another Somali man, Mustafa Farah, 51, who was living in the United Kingdom, allegedly strangled his young bride, Naima Mohamed Moalim, 31, only three days after she had arrived from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to join him.
In 2009, In Kansas City, Missouri, Hussein A. Ahmed, 27, was charged with molesting his stepdaughter and then killing his wife, Halimo Ahmed, 49. Mr. Ahmed had married his late brother‘s wife and was raising his nephews and nieces. According to court documents, Ahmed allegedly started molesting his stepdaughter in 2004, when she was 12, and impregnated her by the time she was 14.
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Biyad in court in October 2006 (Courtesy: The Courier_Journal) |
Each of these cases will be examined separately in future articles. In this piece, howvever, a grim tale of physical and psychological violence in Kentucky will be addressed.
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It was Friday morning, October 6th, 2006, when Said Biyad, a Somali Bantu immigrant, walked into the Louisville Metro Police headquarters and calmly told homicide detectives, “I just killed my family”.
The family consisted of his estranged wife, Fatuma Amir, 29, and their four children; Sidi, age eight, Fatuma, age seven, Khadija, age four, and Goshany, who was only two years old. The wife survived but the children were found dead, their throats slashed with a hunting knife. Read more
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