Admin Posted March 4, 2015 Despite knowing the hardships people there face every day, government soldiers destroyed dozens of temporary shelters and shops at a refugee camp in southern Mogadishu, forcing the inhabitants to pile all their belongings onto trucks and move on.Shocking photographs show possessions piled 15-feet high on the back of trucks, with some of the now homeless owners sitting precariously on top. Despite knowing the hardships people there face everyday, government soldiers destroyed dozens of temporary shelters and shops at a refugee camp in southern Mogadishu Some trucks carried so many possessions that men were forced to run alongside them to make sure that nothing fell off Displaced Somali families carrying personal belongings vacate the camp, which was closed down by Somali forces, leaving hundreds of families without shelter in capital Mogadishu Displaced Somali families help push a battered pick-up truck carrying personal belongings from the camp A boy watches as Somali refugees load their belongings onto a truck - knowing that the hard life they all led just got even harder It seems that nothing could be left behind, with fencing, mattresses, water canisters and chairs all crammed onto battered vehicles. The Food and Agriculture Organisation has launched an emergency appeal for $697million to help 30 million people in 31 crisis-hit countries, a senior official with the U.N. agency said on Tuesday.It has requested that Somalia receives $118million of this.Meanwhile, it emerged that a former Washington-area taxi driver who was on the FBI's 'Most Wanted Terrorists' list has been detained and is in the custody of the Somali government, a U.S. government source said. Desperate: Somali children sit in the heat, surrounded by their family's meagre belongings Uncertain: These refugees have been left wondering what to do next and are pictured standing among their scattered possessions The Food and Agriculture Organisation said that there are many people in Somalia living 'on the edge' The FBI in said in January it added Somali-born U.S. citizen Liban Haji Mohamed, 29, to its watch list because he allegedly provided support to the Somalia-based Islamist militant group al Shabaab.The U.S. source said Mohamed was arrested several days ago by Somali authorities and was now in Somali custody, but it was not clear if or when he would be sent back to the United States. The Washington Post first reported on Monday that Mohamed had been detained in Somalia.Mohamed lived in the northern Virginia suburbs near Washington and drove a taxi. He left the United States in 2012.He was said at the time to be an associate of Zachary Chesser, an American who pleaded guilty in 2010 to threatening the writers of the television show 'South Park.' Somali refugees go about their daily lives on October 30, 2014, at the Sayyid camp south of Mogadishu. UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned that Somalia risks returning to famine without urgent aid A Somali refugee walks in front of a camp for internally displaced people near the Parliament in Mogadishu on December 4, 2012. The humanitarian crisis in Somalia is 'critical', Stefano Porretti, acting UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, said recently Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/http://www.somaliaonline.com/heart-rending-pictures-of-somali-refugees-forced-to-pile-everything-they-own-onto-ancient-pick-ups-after-government-troops-destroyed-their-shelters/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
