Bartamaha— On the eve of the verdict in the trial of two men accused of killing Mohamed Ali Ibrahim, a Somali-Canadian man gunned down two years ago, CBC radio’s Karen Horseman spoke to Ahmed Hussen, president of the Canadian Somali Congress, about the difficulties with witnesses faced during the trial and the fact that as the first trial in a string of murder cases involving young Canadian Somali victims, the family of the victim and the community were seeking justice to be done in this case.
More than 30 young Canadian Somali men have died in Alberta in the last three years. Later in the day, judge Paul Belzil, found Adam Michael Brown and Alexander Reid guilty of second-degree murder in the slaying of Mohamed Ibrahim, 24, outside the River Cree Casino west of Edmonton. The guilty decision was met with audible relief from Ibrahim’s mother, Fouzia Mohamed, and members of Edmonton’s Somali community who surrounded her in the courtroom.
In Canada, murder convictions carry an automatic life sentence.
