A Mogadishu Rape Victim Finds Hope in Minnesota

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By Abdirahman Aynte

Fellow, The Center for Independent Media

 

Rochester, MN (HOL)- Just six months ago, Murayo Nur Ali was told that she has no hope to be treated from a severe injury she sustained during a gang-rape at age seven.

 

That was in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. But on Monday, she was full of hope as she stepped out of a private jet that flew her to Rochester for treatment at Mayo Clinic.

 

Though Ali is 11, she looks more like half of that. Gaunt yet playful, she has the signs of languish in her wide eyes. Yet she manages to smile as she strides through dozens of people who waved encouraging signs and flowers at the Rochester International Airport.

 

One sign read “the bad part is over.”

 

It’s exactly the message that the couple who sponsored Ali wanted to send her. The Rochester pair, Abdi and Zahra, who wouldn’t give their last names because they didn’t want to be overwhelmed with all those in need, didn’t know Ali until they read her story on a Somali website.

 

“We couldn’t sleep the night we saw [Ali] on the internet,” said Abdi, who began to mobilize a network of people and organizations to help Ali. “She’s just like my three-year-old daughter.”

 

Severe Injury

 

Ali was only seven when thugs kidnapped her near her family’s home in Mogadishu. She was going to a nearby grocery shop to buy cooking oil.

 

“Before you reach the shop, you will have to pass some old buildings which were ruined in the civil war,” read a statement from her father, recounting the events of that fateful March morning in 2002. “After [she was] away for 30 minutes…., I heard screaming…I stood up and went outside to see the situation. Immediately, I found some people carrying up my daughter bleeding…”

 

The Somali doctor who examined Ali said in a statement that “her genital organ and rectum was extraordinarily opened up beyond recognition.” She uses diapers until now.

 

 

http://www.hiiraan.com/news2/2006/feb/a_mogadishu_rape_victim_finds_hope_in_minnesota.aspx

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MURAAYO NUUR & BINTI JEYLAANI OO NOLOL CUSUB AY UGA BILAABATAY MAREYKANKA KADIB MARKII LAGA DAWEEYAY XANUUNNO HAYEY

 

Axad, Oktoobar 12, 2008(HOL): Muraayo Nuur Cali iyo Binti Jeylaani oo iyagoo xanuunsanayay laga waday Dalka Soomaaliya, isla markaana la geeyay Dalka Mareykanka si xanuuno hayay looga daweeyo ayaa lagu soo waramayaa in xaaladdooda caafimaad ay wanaagsan tahay, ayna nolol cusub uga bilaabatay Dalka Mareykanka.

Muraayo Nuur Cali oo hadda dhowr iyo toban jir ah waxaa iyadoo 6 sano jir ah kufsi fool xun u geystay nin ku sasabtay lacag duuduuban oo uu gacanta ku heystay xili ay reerkeeda dukaan wax uga soo iibineysay, kaasi oo si qasab ah u xoogay, kadibna isu faruuray.

 

Binti Jeylaani iyaduna waxay hayay markii Mareykanka la geynayay xanuun ka dhashay Buro afka kaga soo baxday oo aad u weyneyd, taasi oo Dhaqaatiirta ku sugan Dalka Soomaaliya ay sheegeen in aan gudaha Dalka Soomaaliya waxba looga qaban karin.

 

Haddaba waxaa la is-weydiin karaa labadaas gabdhood ee dhibaatada caafimaad darro qabay yaa geeyay Mareykanka, sideese ku heleen daweyntaas. Dadaalkaas waxaa sameeyay oo isu xil-qaamay Cabdi Muuse Maaxaay oo ka mid ah Aqoonyahannada Soomaaliyeed ee ku dhaqan Dalka Mareykanka

 

Haddaba si aan wax uga ogaano xaaladda labadaas gabdhood waxaan wareysi la yeelannay Cabdi Muuse Maaxaay oo ku sugan Magaalada Rochester ee Dalka Mareykanka, wareysigii aan la yeelanayna waxaa uu u dhacay qaabkan:

 

HOL

: Waxaad ka warantaa xaaladda Muraayo Nuur Cali kadib markii xanuunnadii hayay looga daweeyay Dalka Mareykanka?.

 

MAAXAAY

: Muraayo oo Runtii ahayd Gabadhii ugu horeysay ee aan halkan keennay xaaladdeeda waa ay wanaagsan tahay, caafimaadkeedana meel wanaagsan ayuu marayaa, waxay dhigataa Fasalka 6aad, iyada iyo Aabaheed halkan ayay ku nool leeyihiin, sharcina waa la siiyay.

 

HOL

: Muraayo markii halkan (Somalia) laga wadayay waxay qabtay shock kadib markii uu dhibaato u geystay nin aan damiir lahayn oo ku kufsaday Magaalada Muqdisho, hadde sidee tahay niyaddeeda?.

 

MAAXAAY

: Alxamdulillaah, Muraayo moral-keeda aad ayuu u dhisan yahay, maalinba maalinta ka dambeysa wuu isa sii bedelayaa, dadka wey salaameysaa, ragga wey salaameysaa, caafimaadkeedana waa heer sare, saxarada oo aysan koontarooli karin shalay maanta waa ay koontarooleysaa, kaadida oo aysan shalay koontarooli karin maanta wey koontarooli kartaa, waa la daweeyay, mustaqbalkeedana waa fiican yahay, waxaan rajeyneynaa in haddii ay guursato mustaqbalka uu Alle Ubad siin doono.

 

HOL

: Maaxaay, waxaa ka warantaa gabar kale oo waxaa jirtay la yiraahdo Binti Jeylaani, taasi oo iyadana Afka Buro weyn kaga taalay, taasi oo intii aan la geynin Mareykanka sawirradeeda lagu baahiyay Website-yada, xaaladda Gabadhaas ka waran?

Mareykanka joogtaa maanta.

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Good to know-

God bless Maxaay and all those that helped.

 

 

Help us nominate one of the very few Somalis who positively impacted people's lives. We need 2000 votes. Please help us to nominate Mr Abdiaziz Maahaay for CNN Hero Nomination:

 

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/2012.nom/

 

We need at least two thousand people to send this nomination. When you complete the nomination choose 'I have completed'.

 

Bio Mr Abdiaziz Maahaay:

Abdiaziiz Maahay, aged 42, is the founder and the current executive director of Somali American Healthcare Foundation (SOMCARE). This is a non-profit organization that started with heart touching incident in 2/19/2006 of M.M. who was a 7 year old Somali girl who was a gang rape victim which destroyed her life both physically and emotionally... Maahaay and his wife were touched by this heart-breaking news which they read in Hiiraan online (a Somali owned website). They immediately took action by contacting people and organizations around Minnesota- luckily Mayo Clinic took the initiative to sponsor M.M, with the help of other organizations, individuals, US senator and hospitals like University of Minnesota which helped B.M. who had developed a huge tumor on her mouth which made her unable to eat and speak. The next served case was Mohamed a 2 year old boy who was born with bladder exstrophy for which he got a medical service at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

 

One of the major challenges that Maahaay faced was to bring a conjoined twins whose situation had no hope in life due to inadequate medical facilities and due to unskilled doctors to help with this kind of problem in Kenya. Fortunately, with the help of SOMCARE they were brought to Mayo clinic which sponsored the medical need of the conjoined twins. Not only did SOMCARE lend hand to these individuals but it opened its way to many others that had no hope in life. In addition to that SOMCARE had succeeded to medically evacuate 210 patients to Nairobi, Kenya for medical treatment.

 

Here is the link and the sources of the stories for the work Maahaay has done Please note when you are sending the nomination use the links below.

 

1- CNN interview in Mogadishu Somalia

2- Mayo Clinic helps for Somali Children.MSNBC Rochester Minnesota KTTC TV

MSNBC Rochester Minnesota KTTC TV

3- The medical supplies from USA to Somalia

4- The medical project in Kenya. Canadian Doctor Dr. Peonaru is doing Kenya National TV

5- http://www.hiiraan.com/comments2-news-2009-Feb-man_tries_to_help_one_person_at_a_time.aspx

6-http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/127630823.html?refer=y

7- http://www.hiiraan.com/comments2-news-2009-Feb-man_tries_to_help_one_person_at_a_time.aspx

 

You will need Abdi Maaxaay's email and phone: Maaxaay@msn.conm and phone number 507-990-9445.

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Ilaahey ha caafiyo inanta..walahi waa wax laga naxo..I hope she can find some lull in life's future.