Somalia

Mogadishu then:


And now:

One 17-year-old boy remembered the day last June when Shabab fighters chained him to a gurney and dragged him in front of a huge crowd.

“Ismael Khalif Abdallah,” the fighters said, reading out the boy’s name, “is a thief. He has been robbing people. It’s time to punish him.”

For the next 10 minutes, the men sawed through Ismael’s wrist bones. Then they cut off his foot. Just recounting the pain and terror makes Ismael’s hairless face break out in sweat.

“Now what?” he says, struggling to light a cigarette with his stub of an arm.