Abdi Hasan Awale Qeybdiid

Abdi Hasan Awale "Qeybdiid" (* 1948 ) is a warlord and politician in the Somali civil war . He belongs to the clan of the Sacad-Habre Gedir- Hawiye .

Abdi Qeybdiid was police chief under Siad Barre . After the fall of Barres, he joined the Somali National Alliance led by Mohammed Farah Aidid and played a leading role in the fight against UN troops . In 1993 he was arrested by US soldiers and spent several months in military detention.

Qeybdiid was imprisoned in Sweden in 2005 on charges of genocide during the 1990s, but was soon released for lack of evidence. The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reported that a video was circulating among Somalis in exile that Qeybdiid is said to show the execution of child soldiers in Kismayo in 1991. The tape shows a Qeybdiid-like-looking man interrogating a group of captured child soldiers before ordering his militiamen to shoot them.

In 2006 he participated in the “ Alliance for Peace and Against Terrorism ” and was involved in the Battle of Bandiradley against the Union of Islamic Courts . He then led the forces of Galmudug, which was unilaterally declared independent . He was also the chief of police in the interim government in Mogadishu.

On August 14, 2012, Qeybdiid was elected President Galmudug.

A UN report from 2013 describes Qeybdiid as a "threat to security and peace". He is said to have used his still existing militia as a means of political pressure against the federal government and threatened to withdraw them from Mogadishu if his demands were not complied with. This would have deliberately worsened the security situation in the capital. Members of Qeybdiid's militia are also said to have repeatedly enabled al-Shabaab fighters to enter state-controlled areas.

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The Copenhagen Post: Somali police chief arrested for genocide ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
BBC News: Sweden frees Somali police chief

↑ Kerstin Danielsson: Greps för massmord. In: aftonbladet.se. October 17, 2005, accessed August 20, 2014 (Swedish).
↑ BBC News: Somalis returning to the capital
^ Report of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea pursuant to Security Council resolution 2060 (2012): Somalia. July 12, 2013, pp. 115–118 , accessed August 20, 2014 .

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SURNAME	Qeybdiid, Abdi Hasan Awale
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Qeybdiid, Abdi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Somali warlord
DATE OF BIRTH	1948

[1] Kerstin Danielsson: Greps för massmord. In: aftonbladet.se. October 17, 2005, accessed August 20, 2014 (Swedish).

[2] BBC News: Somalis returning to the capital

[3] Report of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea pursuant to Security Council resolution 2060 (2012): Somalia. July 12, 2013, pp. 115–118 , accessed August 20, 2014 .