Somali Christian Flees Refugee Camp Under Death Threat

CDN reports:
“Somali Christian Mohamud Muridi Saidi last month fled a refugee camp near Kenya’s border with Sudan after Muslims threatened to kill him.”

“For Saidi, a father of four, the recent relocation of 13,000 refugees from the Dadaab refugee camp near the Somali border to the Kakuma camp, where he had lived since 2002, brought its own nightmare: the arrival of Muslims from Somalia’s Lower Juba region who knew of his father’s Christian activities in his home village.”

“After Somalis four times threw stones at Saidi’s iron sheet home in the Kakuma refugee camp – once in mid-October, and again on Nov. 17, 21 and 22 – word spread that they intended to kill him. Case workers for a Lutheran World Federation (LWF) service group confirmed the death threat.”

” ‘I know the attackers are the Muslims who forced us to leave Somalia in 2002,’ Saidi told Compass in Nairobi, adding that he was unable to bring his family with him when he fled on Nov. 23. ‘They are not safe, and that is why we should be out of Kakuma as soon as possible.’ ”

“Saidi has reported the attacks to the LWF service group as well as to police in Kakuma. Case workers for the LWF service group confirmed that the stoning of his home had escalated to the threat of him being assassinated.”