MOGADISHU-- Mohamed Abdi Warsame's hand shakes as he places it on my knee. "Some say my brother was killed over a woman," he says. "That's not true. He was killed for the sake of the truth." After the evening prayer on October 21, 2012, Mohamed's brother, a local journalist named Yusuf Warsame, was leaving a mosque in Mogadishu's Medina neighborhood. As he made his way to a pharmacy to find relief for an earache, two pistol-wielding men stepped out of a doorway and shot him multiple times in the back. Mohamed was turning a corner onto the same street when the shots rang out; close enough to witness the gunmen fleeing the scene. "I saw them with my own eyes," he says. "But I was too far away to gaze on their faces." Yusuf succumbed to his injuries one week later in nearby Medina Hospital, becoming the 11th Somali journalist to be assassinated in 2012. He was 22 years old. Though the attack occurred in broad daylight, no witnesses came forward, and no arrest has been made. Somalia's al Qaeda-linked Islamist group, al-Shabab, is often fingered for killing journalists, but there is rarely enough evidence to determine guilt. "The ones [...]
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