The 39-year-old Sir Mo Farah tells the truth about his past as a child trafficking victim from Somaliland to the UK. He is followed as he ventures into his past in the BBC One documentary.
He has admitted that he was illegally transported to the UK as a child and made to work as a domestic worker.
Where Is Sir Mo Farah’s Twin Brother Hassan Farah Now?
When the twins were 8 years old, their parents sent Hassan back to war-torn Somalia and Mo to the United Kingdom.
Hassan was raised in Djibouti, a country bordering Somalia, amid impoverished circumstances. He resides humbly in Hargeisa, which is in northern Somalia, and has followed his brother’s Olympic achievements.
Muktar Farah, the father of Mo and Haasan, had fled Somalia during a violent period and had returned to England, where he had previously resided.
However, he informed the boys’ mother that he could only bring three of his six children, the maximum number he could afford to support.
As Hassan recalls, “My grandmother told us that Mo would be going, taking a train to Addis Ababa [in Ethiopia] and then a plane to England.” He was assured that one day, the whole family would be reunited. But it wasn’t until Mo paid a visit to Somalia 12 years later that he saw his twin again. And he has never visited England personally.
Mo Farah Real Family And Background- Who Are His Biological Parents?
Muktar Farah, a British citizen, and his Somali wife had six children together, including Farah and his twin brother Hassan. The Farah family was ejected from their Mogadishu house in 1990 due to a violent conflict in Somalia. The sister and twins moved in with their grandma in the neighboring country of Djibouti.
Farah, however, was sent to join his father in London when he was eight years old, leaving Hassan behind. Farah arrived without any English language skills, but he had a passion for association football (often known as soccer), which he intended to pursue.
Instead, his sports teacher, who drove him to club training sessions and eventually acted as Farah’s best man in 2010, encouraged him to start running when he was 11 years old.
Mo Farah Life Story On BBC Documentary
In a recent BBC documentary, Sir Mo Farah exposed the truth about his early life as a youngster transported from Somaliland to the UK. On July 13 on BBC One and at 6 a.m. on BBC iPlayer, The Real Mo Farah will be broadcast.
The Olympic athlete revealed to the BBC that the people who flew him over from Djibouti gave him the name Mohamed Farah. Hussein Abdi Kahin is his true name.
The distance runner confesses in the one-off documentary that his real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin and that he was raised during the Somali civil war. He says that after his father was killed in the civil war while he was only four years old, his family was “torn apart.”
The one-hour BBC documentary will center on how Mo, who was nine years old when brought to the UK, was mistreated while working as a “servant” for another family. You don’t know something about me, the Olympic medalist stated.
He claims that when he was nine years old, a woman who he had never seen transported him over from an East African nation and forced him to care for another family’s children.
Team GB athlete: “For years, I just kept blocking it out.” You can’t ignore it forever, though. The distance runner earlier claimed that he and his parents fled Somalia for the UK.