Massacre in Mosque

[Diyeeshaha_Tolka]

shillin...this old man was killed by the xabashi ,cuz they thought he was alshabaab

[Somaliweyn]

Ethiopia denies Amnesty mosque killings accusation

By Tsegaye Tadesse

ADDIS ABABA, April 24 (Reuters) - Ethiopia rejected on Thursday accusations by Amnesty International that its soldiers killed 21 people at a Somali mosque as "lies" and "propaganda".

The rights group said on Wednesday the soldiers, stationed in Somalia to bolster the interim government, had also captured dozens of children in a raid on the Al Hidaaya mosque earlier this week during operations against Islamist insurgents.

It said an imam and several Islamic scholars were among the dead, and that seven victims had their throats slit.

"Amnesty's allegations are unsubstantiated lies and propaganda that they received from Islamic groups in Somalia. Ethiopia has never been involved in such incidents," said Information Ministry spokesman Zemedkun Tekle.

"Ethiopia would have been surprised if Amnesty had said something positive about Ethiopia rather than its usual lies."

Bereket Simon, President Meles Zenawi's special adviser, also criticised the report, noting the human rights group has no presence in Somalia. "It is gathering hearsay and accusing Ethiopia based on false information."

Some moderate Islamist leaders in Somalia have postponed plans to attend U.N.-sponsored peace talks after the mosque incident and an escalation of fighting in Mogadishu.



"BRUTAL KILLINGS"

Residents said four more corpses were found in the coastal capital on Wednesday, bringing the death toll from last weekend's shelling and seizure of small towns by the Islamists to at least 103. The clashes were the worst in recent months.

In a statement, U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes urged protection for civilians and criticised the mosque raid.

"He also strongly condemned the brutal killings that occurred on 20 April at Al Hidaaya mosque in Heliwaa district of Mogadishu, where women and children were present," said a statement from his New York office.

Holmes's statement said heavy artillery was used in residential areas during recent clashes. "Combatants appear to have little regard for the safety of civilians in Mogadishu, where residents have been traumatised by years of violence."

The Islamist insurgents -- remnants of a sharia courts movement ousted from their strongholds in Mogadishu and much of southern Somalia at the end of 2006 -- view the presence of traditional foe Ethiopia in their country as an "occupation".

Somali police said on Thursday they had freed 37 young people, mainly Koranic students, taken in the mosque raid, leaving just a handful still in custody.

Civilians have borne the brunt of the Somali conflict, which a local rights group says killed 6,500 people last year. One million Somalis live as internal refugees.

The government is struggling to assert its authority in Somalia, deprived of an effective central government since the 1991 toppling of Mohamed Siad Barre. (Additional reporting by Barry Malone in Addis Ababa, Aweys Yusuf in Mogadishu, and Andrew Cawthorne in Nairobi) (Writing by Katie Nguyen; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne and Ibon Villelabeitia) (For full Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: africa.reuters.com/ )

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCr ... SL24907533

[Nivea_x]

Inside a Mosquee ..

Thats sooo wronggggggg...
I say we Bomb ethopiaa.. Whos with me

[Shirib]

Inside a Mosquee ..

Thats sooo wronggggggg...
I say we Bomb ethopiaa.. Whos with me

Why bomb Ethiopia when ur own Somali brethren are justifying it

Good idea though 8)

[Somaliweyn]

We can understand why our enemy and perpetrator of this horrific act denies it, but what about the dozens of Somalis denying it just because they support the Ethiopian occupation out of little selfish clannish interest?

So UN, Human Rights Report and all those other International media organisations are wrong? So pictures like these are wrong?





Ethiopia is used to commit such horrific acts, especially in their half a century occupation of Somali lands and people in the Ogaden region.

Somali people need to understand that if nothing is done now, we will face the same half a century occupation our brothers have faced in the occupied lands that belong to the Somali.

[Shirib]

^^^ Amnesty international and other U.N aid groups can condemn Muslims, being massacred inside a mosque, but the Somali Muslims justify it. Indeed sad/

[Somaliweyn]

The hypocricy of the West:

Alot of media coverage for killings in non-muslim countries perpetratored by regimes that are not on their side: Birma (Cambodja), Tibet-China etc...while killings in muslim countries perpetratored by regimes that are on their side are ignored or not taken serious: killings in Palestine, Iraq, Somalia, Afganistan perpetratored by regimes on the side of the West.



PS:

Shirib, lets keep clan-names out of this topic. It is more then politics, it has gone beyond Somali issue, this is a Muslim issue, and it is a shame that muslim countries dont even protest this act inside the holliest place in Islam. It is the same inactiveness that led to Palestine been colonized for over half a century.

Please, edit your post and remove the clan-name.

[Nivea_x]

Inside a Mosquee ..

Thats sooo wronggggggg...
I say we Bomb ethopiaa.. Whos with me

Why bomb Ethiopia when ur own Somali brethren are justifying it

Good idea though

But the best idea would be..
Lock All the somali men in Cages.. Somewhere in the desert.

This one Ethopian guy said 2 me..Somalians are weak and we are going to control them..i said suit ur self im not somali anyway 8)

[Young Wadani *]

fock What the west thinks, we must reclaim our destiny now or become the idle lazy oromos


Al Shabab haa noolato

[Highland]

This is war , so expect the ugly parts of war. Or else, put the gun down, recognize the TFG so that you will be safe.

[Shirib]

This is war , so expect the ugly parts of war. Or else, put the gun down, recognize the TFG so that you will be safe.

And who are u, other nick?

[Highland]

The corpse you posted was probably killed by the Islamists.


Islamists Behead three government soldiers

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist insurgents cut off the heads of three Somali soldiers south of the capital on Thursday and the U.N. special envoy said he would try to set up peace talks between the opposition and government.

It was the first case of beheadings since the government and its Ethiopian military allies ousted the Islamists from power in late 2006, sparking a bloody insurgency characterized by roadside bombs and hit-and-run attacks.

"This morning the mujahideen attacked the so-called government troops guarding the roads for the Ethiopian forces. We killed three of them," said Muktar Ali Robow, a senior commander of the Islamists' Shabab youth wing.

"We did what we promised to them. People traveling in that road can be asked how we killed them," he told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.

Witnesses in the area said they saw three headless corpses near Lego town, 130 km (81 miles) south of Mogadishu.

"We were terrified because we have never seen a human slaughtered like an animal," truck driver Hassan Mohamed Amin told Reuters.

At least 7,000 people have died, and hundreds of thousands been displaced in the 15-month insurgency, creating what aid workers call one of the world's worst yet most ignored humanitarian crises.

In a separate attack, gunmen killed a police official and two body guards, also wounding two local employees of Medecins Sans Frontieres-Spain, some 30 km (19 miles) north of Mogadishu. Continued...


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[Shirib]

The corpse you posted was probably killed by the Islamists.


Islamists Behead three government soldiers

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist insurgents cut off the heads of three Somali soldiers south of the capital on Thursday and the U.N. special envoy said he would try to set up peace talks between the opposition and government.

It was the first case of beheadings since the government and its Ethiopian military allies ousted the Islamists from power in late 2006, sparking a bloody insurgency characterized by roadside bombs and hit-and-run attacks.

"This morning the mujahideen attacked the so-called government troops guarding the roads for the Ethiopian forces. We killed three of them," said Muktar Ali Robow, a senior commander of the Islamists' Shabab youth wing.

"We did what we promised to them. People traveling in that road can be asked how we killed them," he told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.

Witnesses in the area said they saw three headless corpses near Lego town, 130 km (81 miles) south of Mogadishu.

"We were terrified because we have never seen a human slaughtered like an animal," truck driver Hassan Mohamed Amin told Reuters.

At least 7,000 people have died, and hundreds of thousands been displaced in the 15-month insurgency, creating what aid workers call one of the world's worst yet most ignored humanitarian crises.

In a separate attack, gunmen killed a police official and two body guards, also wounding two local employees of Medecins Sans Frontieres-Spain, some 30 km (19 miles) north of Mogadishu. Continued...


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Islamists killed soldiers a few months ago, near Buur Hakaba, Ethiopians killed elderly wadaads.

That picture looks like an elderly man, not a soldier

[Highland]

Shirib, you have no proof whether he was struck by a flying bullet or intentionally killed.


Check this article,

Somali Leader denies Mosque Massacre allegations

http://www.garoweonline.com/artman2/pub ... ions.shtml

[Somaliweyn]

Perpetrators of a crime always deny it and blame others.


So Alshabaab went in the mosque and murdered 21 people inside the mosque while the whole area was in the control of Ethiopian troops and their Somali spydogs?

Silly accusation that has no base.

As I said, we could expect this denial by our arch-enemy who occupies Somali lands for over a half century...but what amazes us is that some Somalis follow this arch-enemy out of silly selfish clannish interest.