Just the other day we reported that clan disputes were creeping into American cities where Somalis have congregated in large numbers. In one of Canada’s most concentrated Somali communities, murders of young Somalis are worrying Somalis and the police:
From the Toronto Sun:
EDMONTON — When 23-year-old Mohammed Jama was shot to death in front of horrified onlookers at a restaurant on New Year’s Eve, he became the 11th young man from Edmonton’s Somali community to die in a hail of gunfire in less than 30 months.
Cops say that most of the victims had some kind of tie to the drug trade. Many moved to Edmonton from Toronto within the last few years.
The body count has horrified the city and sent ripples of fear, dread and anger through the city’s rapidly-growing Somali community.
Its 14,000 members make up the largest Somali-Canadian community outside of southern Ontario and the largest African community in Edmonton.
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…. it’s even more complex for struggling new Somali families, Abdullahi says, because too often the parents bring their homeland’s clan rivalries with them.
“People from one group have nothing to do with another,” he says. Abdullahi says there are at least five different Somali cultural associations in the city and they’re all rivals.