Cigar Dealer Murdered in Mogadishu for Change

Today, a cigar dealer near a street in Mogadishu is murdered by his customer after he argued with the buyer to change 2000 Somali Shillings which was too old and torn. The buyer ran back to his house where he had a gun. He brought it with him shot the dealer multiple times.

Murderer just returned comfortably to his house. The victim perhaps belong to a minor clan whose weapons are limited.

Before this, a young man engaged to a Somali girl of his age in Mogadishu. His uncles went to the family of the bride but her uncles shocked that their woman is just wanted by Adoon or Iilay, “subclass” of Raxawayn tribe.  The girl’s tribe felt offended and humiliated.  The boy’s were hushed and ordered to whisper so that the neighbors don’t hear the shame and the disgrace. “ how dare you! The girl’s clan yelled.

The potential bride was willing to be his wife. Few hours before the leakage of the marriage of the girl of a noble tribe and her man’s inferior one, the boy was silenced. He was murdered in broad daylight. His death provoked nothing but celebrations by the killer’s tribe. The weaker tribe members mourned for few hours and disappeared for fear of their lives.

Minor clans suffer discrimination and hatred. They also suffer murder like flies without anybody’s attention.

Somalia is awash with guns. in Eid festivals some children don’t need to have gun toys because they can play their fathers’ real deadly gun on part-time during the festivities and try to shoot to know if it kills before reach maturity.