People from Somaliland vehemently oppose U.S. Rep.
@Ilhan, viewing her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, a colonel in the Somalian army under dictator Siad Barre, as complicit in the Isaaq Genocide, which killed up to 200,000 civilians in the late 1980s.
Their family fled as Barre’s regime collapsed, seeking U.S. asylum amid accusations of war crimes.