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by Jasmine Griffeth
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
A 19-year-old who was facing drug charges became the latest Somali murder victim on the weekend in Fort McMurray.
by Jasmine Griffeth
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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Alberta's Somali community is accusing the province's justice minister of "playing political games'' by refusing to set up a task force to find out why so many young Somali-Canadians have died violently here. A 19-year-old who was facing drug charges became the latest Somali murder victim on the weekend in Fort McMurray.
The Canadian Somali Congress has partnered with Edmonton's Alberta Somali Community Centre to push for a province-led task force to investigate up to 30 Somali deaths in Alberta since 2005.
Justice Minister Alison Redford told the group at a meeting last month that a task force would be expensive and time-consuming and what's really needed is to start working on the root problems.
But Mahamad Accord, director of the Somali Community Centre, says the province doesn't know what the real problems are behind these murders, so that's why a task force is needed.
Accord says the Somali community has collected 1,500 hundred names on a petition and is also planning demonstrations and possible legal action to force the province to set up a special task force.
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