Feisal Omar Analysis

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This image portrays the brutally common practice of execution in Somali

On this calm relaxing, beautiful day of death in Somalia. Reuters, photographer Feisal Omar captures an image of a brutal execution. "Three men found guilty by a Somalia military court of killing civilians and masterminding a recent attack on the Presidential Palace stand tied to poles shortly before they were executed by a firing squad. These three men are hopelessly bound to their individual poles. They have bare feet and white blind folds. These men terrifyingly await their unimaginable deaths from
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The first man wearing a red shirt, black and grey with diamond patterns on the pants. He has a white hood that covers his head. This man has a green nylon rope binding him from top to bottom arms around the pole and crossed in back. The second man wearing light pink shirt with long sleeves, black pants, and he too has a white hood that covers his head same as the first man. He also was bound by the same type of green nylon rope as the first man. The third man in the photo wears a white long sleeve shirt, yellow pants with light brown vertical squiggly lines all the way down to his feet. A white hood also covers his entire head and neck. This one was bound with a red nylon cord. I’m not sure if there was a reason for the change in color. I could speculate this was some kind of exacution order but that is unknown. His arms were pulled back and wrapped around the pole. Also he was bound from his ankles to his chest. None of the three men could move as they awaited their …show more content…
There was a large group of soldiers that stood in formation in what seemed to be a very relaxed state. These 7 men were lined up guns in hand in firing squad formation. A larger group of men standing behind them, and out to their sides. Also there were higher ranking officers at either side of the execution squad. I wonder what could be going through the mind of these men preparing to commit pre-meditated murder on three men they really know nothing about other than the court finding them guilty. ( Feisal) This seems to throwback to the brutal blood-begets-blood mentality of the frontier era. Where people were shot and killed because of not much more than here

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