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Somali Transitional Federal Government on Friday dismissed a recent report by Amnesty International in which it accused the horn of Africa country of violating human rights as baseless and untrue.

 

On 23 May, the human rights watchdog of Amnesty International issued an annual report on the countries in horn of and Eastern Africa to have involved in gross human violations.

 

Speaking to the local media, Abdi Haji Goobdoon, the government spokesman, today described the Amnesty report as an exaggeration to what happened in Somalia and not based on the reality.

 

“Local human rights agencies are yet novices in their work because the whole country is recovering from the civil war and hardships that have not yet entirely evaded, so I believe Amnesty was quick to criticize Somalia on rights violations,” he said.

 

Amnesty International annual report on May 23rd, shows abuses, including random detention of government critics, religious persecution, disappearances, murder and torture.

 

In Somalia, civilians maintain to suffer from factional violence as rival groups compete for political power. Drought ravaged many areas and humanitarian access was obstructed by insecurity, report says.

 

Amnesty says 400,000 Somali IDPs who fled the ongoing turmoil in the capita, Mogadishu, remain poor while violence and discrimination against minority was common with little protection from government or justice institutions.

 

Goobdoon says his government was determined to safeguard the rights of the Somali people in general.

 

The UN backed government based on 4.5 formula (4 major clans and so called minority groups), now seems to be coping with restoration of peace and security in anarchic country, while it utterly hinges on EU and US financial aid to take steps towards gaining firm control of the country, the capital in particular.

 

The European Union have so far pledged more financial aid to the Somali government, depending how it establishes political dialog with its opponents including the routed Union of Islamic Courts, which the country’s two top leaders repulsed inviting Islamists in attending the national reconciliation conference due to take place in Mogadishu next month.