Edited sentence: Department of State, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Africa Watch) as having been involved in torture and extrajudicial killings of civilians on a massive scale, particularly during the war in northern Somalia from May 1988 through to the end of 1989.During this time, the NSS was identified by many sources (including the U.In the last years of the Barre government, Kahin held the rank of Sergeant in the National Security Service, and served as the NSS station chief in Berbera.Sergeant Kahin was charged with suppression of the Somali National Movement