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WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Private lawsuits say two Somali residents of Northern Virginia committed human rights violations in their homeland, a published report said Friday.
The suit filed by a human rights group charges the two Somalis ordered torture, killings, rapes and other acts of brutality against a rival clan during the 1980s when they held positions of power in Somalia, The Washington Post reported.
The lawsuits say Mohamed Ali Samatar, a former defense minister and prime minister, and Yusuf Abdi Ali, a former commander of a Somali army battalion, committed the violations during the military regime of the late Somali President Siad Barre" class="tpstyle">Mohamed Siad Barre, who was deposed in 1991.
The lawsuits were filed by the San Francisco-based Center for Justice and Accountability and a Reston, Va., law firm in federal court in Alexandria, Va., on behalf of eight Somali plaintiffs.
Both targets of the suits live in the Washington suburbs in Virginia.
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