In Mogadishu 31 Killed in 24 hours

[Jacaylbaro]

MOGADISHU, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Heavy fighting between Somali government forces backed by Ethiopian troops and insurgents in Mogadishu has killed at least 31 Somalis and wounded 60 in the past 24 hours, a human rights group said on Tuesday.

 

"The killings were from gunshots and explosions in different parts of the city," the head of Elman Human Rights Group, Sudani Ali Ahmed, told Reuters. "It is totally unacceptable and ... against human rights."

 

In one incident, Ethiopian soldiers opened fire on a bus full of civilians, killing 10 people and wounding several others, Ahmed said.

 

"This was the most ugly attack," Ahmed said. "Six people died instantly and another 14 were wounded, four of whom died."

 

Ethiopia denied carrying out the bus attack.

 

"This is a baseless accusation, as usual," Ethiopian Information Ministry spokesman Zemedhun Tekle said in Addis Ababa. "We would never open fire on civilians like this."

 

A European Union security expert and U.N. arms monitors have both said Ethiopia carried out attacks on civilian targets in past anti-insurgent offensives in Mogadishu.

 

At a hospital near the scene of the attack, Deq Hayr Olad, 24, said he remembered the bus being sprayed with bullets, some of which hit him in the left leg.

 

"My wife was eight months pregnant," he told Reuters, his leg swathed in bandages. "They both died."

 

A Reuters reporter at the hospital saw wounded people streaming into the emergency room. In the hallway, a boy wafted a freshly taken X-ray of his uncle's bullet wound in the air to dry it.

 

Felis Adan, an 8-year-old survivor of the bus attack, cried as she sat next to her wounded grandmother on a stretcher.

 

"I don't know what happened," she told Reuters. "I saw people crying and screaming, then my grandmother was bleeding."

 

As the violence in Mogadishu intensified, Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi told Reuters on Tuesday he was seeking to create a Baghdad-style "Green Zone" in the city to protect officials and foreign visitors from insurgent attacks.

 

Hundreds have been killed by mortar and rocket attacks and firefights in Mogadishu since Somalia's Ethiopian-backed interim government ousted Islamist fighters in December, sparking an insurgency that has forced hundreds of thousands to flee.

[xiinfaniin]

Green zone, eh? Creating a green zone will not solve Mogadishu’ s security problems yaa Geedi. Remember you and your boss thought that bringing Ethiopian troops would give you the advantage you thought you needed to rule the country in peace. It didn’t happen. The reason it did not happen is not because Ethiopian troops aren’t superior militarily to your foes. They are. The have tanks and attack helicopters. And they have mechanized army with the proper logistics. But all of that didn’t give you and your colleagues the peace you so desperately wish to have. Why not?

 

Here are some of the reasons (take note yaa Geedi):

 

1- The presence of Ethiopian troops on the sacred Somali soil is itself a reason for insecurity to spread. We trust you would not compel us to cite history for that to be so.

2- Lack of legitimacy combined with incompetence---when the clannish sentiments is removed from the equation, you, the old man, and your junior partners come across as puppet and pre-owned characters who would do anything to gain personal goals (enriching yourself, in your case, and clinging the feeble power he has, in the case of Yey).

 

3- Injustice---you seemed ignorant about the most elementary meaning of justice.

 

 

^^Ponder on those points yaa Geedi!

[Chimera]

this ****** government and those ****** insurgents when will they all perish in the sea and leave us alone in peace?

 

just go away somewhere else we don't need any of you just go

 

degenerate labrats trying to turn Somalia into a genetic wasteland infecting their sick cancer into our body

 

disgusting

 

that ****** ICU why couldn't they stay put and consolidate their gains first and get stronger military?

 

that ****** government the biggest prostitutes i have seen in my life, have they no shame? where is there Somalinimo? forget Somalinimo where is there manhood?, getting bossed around by abyssinians for god sakes,oh my god it just hit me like a dagax ,i feel so ashamed and little all because of these crooks haaqqqq tuuff basterds

 

sick sick sick of it