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
psychological support. but above all it s companionship and leisure time that are helping them to overcome the trauma. but we can talk to each other about all the things we ve done wrong and give each other support about how not to fall back into our destructive ways. to look for somalia a hope for the birth of a united government and for my life i hope to work for the benefit of my country and for my people with their new skills meant intend to make a positive contribution to society again. i hope other young people won t repeat them mistake of joining up with us but. the report was produced by d w that melanie could have to bow who joins us now from nairobi welcome bellamy how successful are these rehabilitation programs well fairly it seems they are very successful of course it s impossible to get
of joining up with us but. their report was produced by my colleague melanie cure of the ball she joins me now from nairobi good evening to you melanie i mean that s an excellent reporting in a story that most people i think would not expect to hear this this is attempts to rehabilitate former jihad is how successful are these rehabilitation programs. it seems very much they are lacking it s of course impossible to get your hands on official nationwide numbers statistics in a war torn country that is currently still experiencing an ongoing conflict but in this facility that you ve seen in the report almost 300 former fighters have been in rehab and taishan and i have on their way all have already gone back to their communities and to start
a better place and to make society a better place to the people who work in it whether it s working with disability people with disability or if it s working in a. chicken. toughest hebrew for every sings going to be all right i sure as rehabilitation programs operates through our east rail their mission is to combat the isolation of people with mental health problems the network includes this baked goods factory in haifa for example which employs almost 200 people in new shift is just starting. the factory is just like any other in many respects it makes cookies and chocolates though not just any old cookies and chocolat iran insists that the best there s one key element that distinguishes the business from conventional factorise as opposed to a regular factory when you want to keep your good employees we re actually want our good employees to leave us so when someone comes in we are asking them it s great
tried or are in rehabilitation programs like germany is capable of handling this kind of problem even if it would involve a big surveillance operation because these are dangerous people but it s a question of whether there s the political will there to do it what is that the problem simon that if some of the some of these german nationals if they came back to germany they would not automatically be in police custody i mean would they be in a walking around freely even if they were being monitored by the authorities. well i mean i think it s been said that a lot of these people are clearly dangerous terrorists there have been intelligence officers heading out to the region to interview many of them and i understand that there are twenty of them who have already had arrest warrants issued for them so the authorities obviously believe that they ve got some evidence in those cases in other cases they might not have the evidence concretely to say what crimes they committed in syria and whet