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Dr. Maxamuud Sheekh Xasan Taani
waa aqoon yahan (ku dhashay Awaare 1953) kaas oo ka qayb galay abaabulka qaab
iskaa wax-u-qabso ahaa oo lagu hagaajinayo adeegga bulshada ee Hargaysa horraantii
1980-yadii, taasoo keentay markii dambe in la xidho 19-kii November, 1981-kii. Markii la
xidhayay wuxuu dhakhtar caafimaad ka ahaa Cisbitaalka Guud ee Hargaysa. Waxa lagu
xukumay 20 sanno oo xabsi ah wuxuuna xidhnaa 8 sannadood.
Wuxuu ka qalin jebiyey Kulliyadda Caafimaadka Jaamacadda Umadda Soomaaliyeed ee
Muqdisho (lodkii labaad ee Jaamacadda ka qalin-jebiya). Kadib waxbarashadiisii, wuxuu
dhakhtar ka ahaa degmada, koonfurta Soomaaliya. Sannadkii 1980kii waxa loo soo wareejiyey
Hargaysa.
Kadib markii xabsigii laga sii daayay wuxuu u guuray dalka Kanada halkaas oo uu xubin
firfircoon ka noqday kooxaha qurba-joogta Somaliland iyo kooxaha ka shaqeeya nabadaynta
Soomaaliya.
Dr. Mohamud Sheikh Hassan Tani
is an intellectual (born in Aware 1953) who organized self-help schemes to improve the
social services in Hargeisa in the early 1980s, which led to his arrest November 19, 1981.
At the time of his arrest he worked as a medical doctor at the Hargeisa Group Hospital. He
was sentenced to 20 years in prison and was imprisoned for eight years.
He is a graduate of the Somali Medical University in Mogadishu (part of the second batch
to graduate). After his studies, he worked as a doctor in Waajid, in Southern Somalia. In
1980 he was transferred to Hargeisa. After his release he moved to Canada where he became
active in Somaliland diaspora groups and Somali peace groups.