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Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 30, 2011 (SL Times) – Somaliland elder
statesman Haji Abdikarim Hussein Yusuf (a.k.a Abdi Warabe) gave an
interesting two part interview to the Somali language newspaper Haatuf
this week.
Haji Abdikarim provided snippets from his own life, Somaliland history
as well as current events. He narrated a very touching story of how he
was sent with two of his kinsmen to exact revenge on a man who had
killed his (i.e Abdikarim Hussein’s) father but that once they met the
man and they had an opportunity to kill him, Haji Abdikarim Hussein
changed his mind and decided not to take revenge on him. The reason he
did so was that the man had treated them so well, and showed them great
consideration and hospitality, Haji Abdikarim Hussein just could not
bring himself to kill such a man.
Haji Abdikarim Hussein also revealed in the interview how he got the
nickname “Hyena”. He said he acquired it due to an incident that
happened when he was young. A group of nomads saw him watching over a
herd of camels, and thought that given his very young age, it would be
an easy task to dispossess him of the herd. But when they actually tried
to do, he put up a ferocious fight shooting and injuring one of the
attackers, and was able to prevent the attackers from walking away with
his herd. Upon reaching their own compound, the camel rustlers were
asked what happened, and one of them said, “we tried to loot some camels
that we thought were protected by a young lad, but it turned out that
they were protected by a hyena.”
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