‘Right-Hand-Man’ Son of Genocidal Dictator Who Killed 200K Found Living in US, Linked to $1.8M Medicare Firm

The children of bloodthirsty Somali dictator Siad Barre, whose rule left as many as 200,000 people dead, are quietly living in the US — alongside victims of his regime.

The Post located the despot’s “right-hand man” son Ayanle and daughter Deka Mohamed Siad, in Columbus, Ohio, where they lead unassuming suburban lives.

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“Siad Barre and his men committed so many war crimes so I was shocked to see his son [Ayanle] in the mosque enjoying his freedom,” Ali-Guban Mohamed, 64, told The Post.

“My family were rounded up in a small township called Agabur and executed. Their bodies were put into a well and that was happening across the board.

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Ayanle, 61, and Deka, 69, arrived in America shortly after Barre was overthrown in 1991, sources said, following two decades of oppression culminating in the “Isaaq Genocide.”

Since living in the US, Barre’s children have cashed in with a Medicare-funded home health care business — which claimed $1.8 million, according to documents seen by The Post — a translation service and even a charity bearing his name.

Ayanle — who historians and human rights campaigners say served as head of Barre’s administration in the final years of the dictatorship — now lives on a quiet street in a suburb of Columbus, the second largest Somali community in the US after Minnesota, with some 70,000 people.

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Mohamed said he had sought safety in the US after Barre ordered the massacre of civilians in the Isaaq clan living in the north, now the self-governing Somaliland. The campaign saw entire cities flattened due to aerial bombardment, wells poisoned and more than a million landmines laid on grazing lands.

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Barre had seized power in a Soviet-backed coup in 1969, but died of a heart attack in Lagos, Nigeria in 1995. He had lived there in exile after he and his cronies fled Somalia, looting an estimated $27 million in gold and cash from the central bank when they went.

The Barre family’s place among the Somali diaspora is complicated. A large part of the Somali community in Columbus hail from the same part of Somalia as the Barre family and remain loyal.

Barre is even celebrated at the Somali Museum of Ohio, which proudly refers to the dictator as its “honorable grandfather.”

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