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The Invisible Country
Tristan McConnell, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2010
HARGEISA, Somaliland - As we sped through the dusty heat of rural Somaliland on one of the region’s few paved roads, an armed escort behind us and the hills of Ethiopia ahead, Dr. Adan Abokor told me his story. Abokor is sixty-two years old with thinning, gray hair, and his steady, measured voice can mask his emotions, but his energy is undiminished, and his memories of 1982 are still raw.
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Alan Boswell, World Politics Review, October 30, 2009
We are killing in the light of God
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