by these people once they try to rehabilitate rehabilitate themselves back into society. they don't really feel that they have to be scared of retaliation by the somali population and speaking to many somalis on the ground i can say that they themselves believe that having amnesty programs having rehabilitation programs like this one is very essential in order for the country to move forward to build peace to defeat al shabaab in the end and that could be surprising considering that they have been at the receiving end of brutal violence by al shabaab spoken to many women who told me about witnessing their husbands being killed in front of their very eyes about being on the run for a year is not being able to go back to their villages which are still under control and it was heartbreaking to see how scared they are to live in their own country there is no safety but at the same time they're hopeful because there are programs