Hiiraan Online Staff
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Some of the Somali nationals in Angolan Jails who contacted HOL said they are subjected to constant beatings, harassment and long jail terms without committing any crime.
The Somalis in prison in Angola, numbering 50, are young men and women who have been lured to the Southern African State by the new prosperity after the end of the long Angolan civil war.
In an interview with Hiiraan Online, the Somali nationals jailed in Angola say they are suffering tremendously at the hands of the Angolan Prison authorities whom they accuse of treating inhumanely.
‘The Angolan prison authorities removed some of our fellow Somalis from their prison cells at night and we don’t know whether they are alive or dead now. We have not seen them since that time’, said a young Somali prisoner in an Angolan jail.
Somali civilians have been pouring into other African countries and beyond where they faced countless suffering since 1991 when the last effective government of President Siad Barre was overthrown and civil war broke out, putting the country into clan controlled fiefdoms.