February 2, 2014 By Omar Mohamoud Mohamed Abdirisak Haji Hussein Hassan Atosh was born in the Ethiopian-Occupied Haud area of Somalia c. 1924. He came to Mogadishu, then the capital of Fascist colony of Italian Somaliland, in 1939. He attended a night elementary school and worked for a living during the day. He joined the British army in 1942 following the British Military occupation in Italian Somaliland after the war. In 1947 he left the British Army at the rank of corporal and joined the Somali Youth League – a political organization fighting for the Freedom, Independence and Unity of all the Somali lands. On the assumption of the Italian Trusteeship in 1950, he was detained as a political prisoner because he was opposed to the return of Italy in Somaliland. After his release from prison he was elected to the President of the Somali Youth League. In 1957 Abdirisak H. Hussein become the first president of the newly established Somali University Institute in Mo...
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