Sir Mo Farah was brought to the UK illegally as a child and forced to work as a domestic servant, he has revealed.
The Olympic star has told the BBC he was given the name Mohamed Farah by those who flew him over from Djibouti. His real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin.
He was flown over from the east African country aged nine by a woman he had never met, and then made to look after another family’s children, he says.
You have to wonder if slavery doesn’t commonly persist in many third world countries. John Kennedy in a visit to Saudi Arabia in 1962 apparently told them that slavery was no longer kosher. That late a date sure surprised me but perhaps the bigger and nastier surprise is that it still goes on.
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Sir Mo Farah was brought to the UK illegally as a child and forced to work as a domestic servant, he has revealed.
The Olympic star has told the BBC he was given the name Mohamed Farah by those who flew him over from Djibouti. His real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin.
He was flown over from the east African country aged nine by a woman he had never met, and then made to look after another family’s children, he says.
You have to wonder if slavery doesn’t commonly persist in many third world countries. John Kennedy in a visit to Saudi Arabia in 1962 apparently told them that slavery was no longer kosher. That late a date sure surprised me but perhaps the bigger and nastier surprise is that it still goes on.