In 2000 Fazal Sheikh returned to some of the refugee camps
where he had photographed in the early 1990s. He found some of the same people
and, nearly a decade later, heard about many of the same problems plaguing the
camps—particularly rape and assault against refugee women. Before he left the
Dagahaley camp, Abshiro Aden Mohammed, the Women’s Leader of the refugees, said
that she would like to tell him some things about the condition of Somali
women, both in Somalia and in the refugee camps. She presented Sheikh with a
carefully written letter that she had dictated to her son.