Winner of four Olympic gold medals and six world titles, the British athlete confesses in a documentary that he lied about his parentage and that he was a victim of illegal human trafficking
Mo Farah is not Mo Farah but Hussein Abdi Kahin. And he was a slave, a victim of illegal human trafficking. The athlete reveals it himself in a BBC documentary in which he describes his true and raw story. Nothing he has said about his parentage so far is true. The 39-year-old long-distance runner, who announced his retirement a few days ago, was transferred to the UK with false documents to be exploited in the domestic service.
In the programme, entitled ‘The real Mo Farah’, which will be broadcast by British public service broadcaster on Wednesday, the two-time Olympic champion of the 5,000 and 10,000 meters at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Games recalls that he had always said he was born in Somalia. And that he had entered the UK as a refugee from Mogadishu when he was 9 years old, to join his father who worked in London. But that’s just a fable invented by the extraordinary runner.
The six-time world champion has stepped forward to reveal to the world that he was indecently brought from Djibouti to the British capital in the 1990s. He also confesses that his parents never traveled to the UK and that his mother and two brothers were really living on a farm in Somaliland, which declared independence in 1991 but is not internationally recognized.
Abdi, her father, was shot dead in Somalia’s civil war when Farah was only four years old. He later went to live with relatives in Djibouti and from there he was driven to the UK by a woman he not only did not know, but had never seen. He cheated on you. He told him that he would take him to Europe to live with relatives, a lie that tempted him because Farah had also never traveled by plane and saw it as a great adventure.
However, when he arrived in London, this woman took him to her apartment in the Hounslow district in the west of the metropolis and made it clear that from then on he would be called Mohamed. She was forced to do housework and care for another family’s children and was not allowed to go to school until she was 12 years old.
It was precisely at school where he showed his talent for athletics. It was then that his dark horizon began to brighten. He was able to participate in several school competitions and his physical education teacher, Alan Watkinson, helped him obtain British citizenship under the name Mohamed Farah, a condition the authorities gave him in July 2000.
“I was separated from my mother and brought to the UK illegally under the name of another child named Mohamed Farah,” said the first British athlete to win four Olympic gold medals. “I’ve kept it to myself for a long time, but it’s hard when you’re face to face with my kids and they often ask me ‘Daddy, how was that? You always have answers to everything, but you can’t find it for that “, he admits in this documentary. “That is the main reason why I explain my story. I want to feel like a normal person and not someone who is hiding something,” he emphasizes.
Tania, his wife, stated a year before they married in 2010 that “there were a lot of missing pieces to his story” and that she managed to “exhaust him with questions” until she revealed the truth. Farah, who has named his son Hussein, as his real name, continues in his reflections: “I often think of the other Mohamed Farah, the boy whose seat I took on that plane. I really hope he’s okay.”
Source: La Verdad
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