'Ethiopians butcher 2 Somali officers'
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:57:37
Ethiopian soldiers in Somalia
Two
high-ranking Somali government officers have been slain by Ethiopian
soldiers having withheld cooperation with the troops, reports say.
A Press TV correspondent reported that the bodies of the two were
found near Manas military base which is close to the southwestern town
of Baidoa.
The two were reportedly done away with after they failed to cooperate with the
Ethiopians.
35 of the government soldiers, meanwhile, managed to escape the
base, while hundreds of them remain under the Ethiopians' supervision
there.
The Ethiopian soldiers, who in alliance with Somali, Ugandan and
Kenyan troops try curbing the violence in the war-battered country have
been given hard time by Somali's spiraling insurgency.
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Former Somali leader blames Ethiopian troops of “Massacre”
Submitted by wararka on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 11:35.
In
a news conference he held in Egyptian capital Cairo former Somali
president Abdi Qasim Salad Hassan has acknowledged that the Ethiopian
troops in Somalia have committed war crimes against Somali civilians.
“They made Somalis in the country those killed. Fled, and jailed “He said.
He added that they “Ethiopians” conducted supplementary killings for reprisal
of 1977s Somalia-Ethiopia’s war as he put it.
He also accused the United States government of revenging Somali
people from their armed resistance they ousted US troops from country
1995.
“US supports Ethiopian troops in Somalia to get revenge Somalis from
SNA’s guerilla led by late General Mohamed Farah Aideed those driven
American troops out from Somalia on 1995 by force” Abdi Qasim said in
the news conference.
He also revealed that the Ethiopian troops killed in Somalia up to 2000 people
and forced for displacement over 2m others.
“Excluding those were killed and displaced the rest are in severe
undernourishment” he said.
He praised Egyptian government of coping with the influx of Somali
refugees including student were offered for at no cost schooling and
safe haven.
Abdi qasim was the president of the former TNG government has been
given the mandate for three years during the conference in Neighboring
Djibouti in which the government was supposed to restore the rule of
law back to Somalia and prepare a multiparty system for the election of
a government, but has failed to extend its influence throughout the
country.
His government controlled parts of the Somali capital, Mogadishu,
with the rest of the country being under the control of various
warlords.
The mandate of his former transitional national government expired
in August 2003 and Abdiqasim withdrew from the talks aimed at forming a
new government shortly before the mandate expired.
The Prime Minister of his government Hassan Abshir Farah accused him
of trying to make the talks fail to extend his time in office,
resulting in the prime minister's dismissal by Abdiq
However, Abdiqasim pledged to step aside to make way for a
constitutionally-elected leader. Abdiqasim was a candidate for the
presidency of the new national unity government, but he was not among
the 3 candidates who passed the 1st round of voting. He left office
peacefully several days after the election.
By:Abdinasir Mohamed Guled
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Shabelle Media Network
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