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'''Darod''' ([[Somali language|Somali]]: '''Daarood''') is a [[Somali people|Somali]] [[clan]] named after a [[Yemen|Yemenite]] [[Arab]], [[Ismail Darod]], who migrated to the coast of present-day [[Somalia]] around [[1200]] [[Common Era|CE]]. Ismail Darod, along with [[Isaaq]], is considered to be one of the common ancestors to all Somalis. Some sources, including the [[Canada|Canadian]] ''Report of the Somalia Commission of Inquiry'', indicate that Darod is the largest Somali clan. Conversely, [[Human Rights Watch]] shows [[Hawiye]] as being the largest. The Darod population is centered in northeast [[Somalia]], with substantial populations in southern Somalia, northern [[Kenya]], and [[Ethiopia]]'s [[Somali Region]] (particularly the [[Ogaden]] area).

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Rowland W. Barnes (b. 1941? – March 11, 2005), a Fulton County, Georgia Superior Court Judge who oversaw the 2003 trial of hockey star Dany Heatley, who killed his teammate Dan Snyder in a car accident.

The third Somalian leader [[Abdirashid Sharmarke]] and the late dictator [[Siad Barre]] were both members of the Darod clan.

== National News Item ==

Barnes was shot and killed on March 11, 2005 in his courtroom. [[Brian Nichols]] has been charged in connection with the shooting. According to reports, Nichols wrestled a gun from a sheriff's deputy present and shot her along with Judge Barnes and his court reporter. Nicholas was taken into custody at an apartment complex in Duluth, Georgia the next day. His wife, Claudia, was working in the Fulton County Superior Court as a judicial assistant at the time of his murder.

== References ==

== Education and Employment ==

* Hunt, John A. (1951). "[http://www.civicwebs.com/cwvlib/africa/somalia/1951/general_survey/chapter_9.htm#B. Chapter IX: Tribes and Their Stock]." ''A General Survey of the Somaliland Protectorate 1944 - 1950''. [[London]]: Crown Agent for the Colonies. Accessed on [[October 7]], [[2005]] (from Civic Webs Virtual Library archive).

Barnes began his academic career at [[Lebanon Valley College]] in [[Annville, Pennsylvania]] (class of 1962). He then graduated from [[Emory University]] School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia in 1972, and at the time of his death still held the title of adjunct professor at the University. He was named to the Superior Court bench in 1988, and had previously been a city court judge in Georgia.

* {{Web reference | title=The Situation in Somalia | work=Report of the Somali Commission of Inquiry, Vol. 1 | url=http://www.dnd.ca/somalia/vol1/v1c11e.htm | date=November 21 | year=2005}}

* {{Web reference | title=Somalia: Human Rights Developments | work=Human Rights Watch | url=http://www.hrw.org/reports/1990/WR90/AFRICA.BOU-09.htm | date=Novermber 21 | year=2005}}

== External Linkslinks ==

*[http://www.civicwebs.com/cwvlib/africa/somalia/1995/reunification/appendix_4.htm ''Reunification of the Somali People'' (Appendix 4)] - History of Somali clans.

* [http://www.lvc.edu/development/barnes/index.aspx Lebanon Valley College Memorial Project]

*[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/somalia_ethnic_grps_2002.jpg Map: Somalia's Clan Families and Major Subclans]

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