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 Bashir
Makhtal is a Canadian citizen originally from Ogaden, a territory
occupied by Ethiopia since the European division of the African
continent
in 1886. Bashir Makhtal is in his late thirties and is married with
no
children.
Makhtal’s family was among many Ogaden families that fled Ogaden to
Somalia due to renewed hostilities between the Ogaden Somalis and
the Haile Sellasie regime in the nineteen sixties and the seventies.
Makhtal took his early education in Somalia. He came to Canada in
1991. He studied computer science at the DeVry Institute of
Technology in Toronto.
He later went to State of Texas to complete his bachelors of
Science degree.
Makhtal lived in Toronto’s Riverdale neighborhood all his time in
Ontario,
Canada. He became a Canadian citizen in 1994. He worked as senior
programmer at two of Canada’s biggest banks i.e. Bank of Montreal
and CIBC.
From 2002 up until December 2006 Makhtal did business outside
Canada, in countries such as Kenya, Djibouti, Somalia, Eritrea and
United Arab
Emirates.
On December 31st, Kenyan authorities detained Makhtal while he was
attempting to cross the Kenya border from Somalia. Kenya illegally
rendered him to Ethiopia via Somalia on January 20th.
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Friends and family of the Free Bashir Makhtal Campaign
freemakhtal@gmail.com
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