Mohammed Emi says he's struggled to come to terms with seeing his tormentors walking free. "We used to be in hell, and now we are in heaven" He lost his five-year-old son, his ten-year- old daughter, wife, in a car bomb during Abdi's rule. The bullet went through my body; the hole is still there."
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