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Ilhan Omar’s Father and the Isaaq Genocide: The Truth Revealed

Between 1987 and 1989, the Somali military in which Colonel Nur Omar Mohamed, Ilhan Omar’s father, served as a senior officer executed a brutal and systematic campaign of genocide targeting the Isaaq people of the modern day Republic of Somaliland. This dark chapter in Africa’s history, which was known as the Isaaq Genocide, was a merciless military campaign that resulted in the killing of over 200,000 Isaaq civilians. It also involved widesprea…
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Somaliland Chronicle broke the news in on Friday, July 25, 2025.
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