Moqdisho Demonstrations Against Al-Shabaab

[Jacpher]

Large Demonstrations Against Latest Suicide Blast

 

Hassan Osman Abdi

 

7 December 2009

 

Somalia — Hundreds of people made large demonstration against the latest suicide blast targeted to Shamo hotel in south of Mogadishu which left more lives and injuries in the capital on 3rd December.

 

The demonstrators traveled on the streets and main intersections of the capital like Banadir, KM5, Km4 and Mekka Al-mukarama Street, a key road that connects between the presidential palace of the TFG and Km4, abase for the African Union troops (AMSIOM).

 

Witnesses said that the people were shooting wards against the suicide bomb attack happened in the capital which caused more casualties of deaths, injures and loss of properties.

 

The people who took part the demonstration also reached at Banadir University where more of the Students of the University whose students lost their lives in the explosion expressed sorrowful as they missed their friends were preparing to take their diplomas in the exploded ceremony at Shamo hotel.

[xiinfaniin]

Good first step. But what is requried is more than a mere protest. They need to take up arms and drive these takfiiris from thier midst.

 

Somalia is being taken hostage, not by warlords, but men who weep in their prayers at night, but kill heartlessly when the day breaks.

[Kamaavi]

Ina Godane and Shangooli are the main factories who produce suicide bombers

 

Need to find and take out before they brainwash more homicidal murderers into a living bombs.

[Sherban Shabeel]

It's finally starting.

[NGONGE]

Stuff and nonsense.

[IsseRiyole]

It is about time and any 1 who is behind this unjustifiable act must be hanged

[Kamaavi]

Originally posted by NGONGE:

Stuff and nonsense.

The reason being, Ngonge?

[Che -Guevara]

^Nothing will come of it. Nothing has and nothing will.

[Kamaavi]

^Curious to know how you reached to that solid conclution?

 

Perhaps that is utterly true

[Liqaye]

Residents clash with rebels on Mogadishu outskirts

08 Dec 2009 15:28:52 GMT

Source: Reuters

* Demonstrations rock Elasha

 

* Witnesses say two people wounded

 

By Abdi Sheikh

 

MOGADISHU, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Residents of a Mogadishu suburb clashed with Hizbul Islam rebels on Tuesday after the insurgents arrested a headmaster who raised a Somali flag over his school.

 

Witnesses said some residents grabbed weapons and fired at the Hizbul gunmen after a protest against the group turned violent in Elasha, 15 km (9 miles) southwest of the capital.

 

Residents said the insurgents shot back, wounding at least two people.

 

The incident was a rare example of Somali civilians standing up to heavily-armed insurgents who rule much of the country.

 

Hundreds of students and local people had taken to the streets after Hizbul Islam fighters stormed Elasha's Ibnu Kuzeima secondary school, replaced the blue Somali flag with a black Islamist banner and then dragged away the principal.

 

"Residents took out their guns. Fighting is going on and I don't think it will stop," shopkeeper Aden Hussein told Reuters.

 

The demonstrators burned tyres and chanted: "We don't want destructive Hizbul Islam. Down with them. They are destroyers."

 

Hizbul officials later released the headmaster but the situation degenerated as residents began shooting at them.

 

"They have freed our principal but we shall not stop demonstrating," student Halima Farah told Reuters by telephone.

 

On Monday, a group of Mogadishu residents attempted to protest against another rebel group, al Shabaab, which is blamed for a suicide bombing at a medical graduation ceremony last week that killed 22 people, including three government ministers.

 

Security forces told those protesters to go home, and they dispersed without incident.

 

Western security agencies say the failed Horn of Africa state is a safe haven for militants including foreign jihadists who use it to plot attacks across the region and beyond.

 

Somalia has lacked a functioning central government since 1991, and the Western-backed administration of President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed controls just a few strategic sites in the capital.

 

Fighting has killed at least 19,000 Somali civilians since the start of 2007 and driven 1.5 million from their homes, triggering one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters. (Editing by Daniel Wallis and Angus MacSwan)

[NGONGE]

Originally posted by Nogobi:

quote:Originally posted by NGONGE:

Stuff and nonsense.

The reason being, Ngonge?

It's not in their hands, saaxib. The rabble always follow whoever is strong enough. Such demos are not likely to make a difference (not yet). At any rate, my dismissive reply was not related to the demonstrators themselves (I don't doubt their anger or sincerity). It was directed at the author of the thread and the weak message he was trying to relay.

[NASSIR]

It was the TFG of Abdillahi Yousuf and now it's al-Shabaab, that is the enemy. The al-shabaab did not arise out of accident, they were created for a temporary objective but one without plan B should it metamorphose into a Monster or any balanced consideration of the long-term consequences of the introduction of Political Islam championed by global non-state actors. Now we have to pay the price, it seems: but it is always the hapless masses, not the leaders whom we carry under our own wings, that suffer the most.