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"Madina said she left Mogadishu with three of her six children after insurgents broke into her house and forced her younger sister to carry a paper-wrapped parcel past a group of Ethiopian soldiers. The gunmen detonated the bomb by remote control, killing Madina's sister and then ran, leaving the enraged Ethiopians to trace the bomb to her family."


I've heard of resistance but this is beyond cowardice, this shows without a doubt the resistance is just as bad as those they are resisting.

WTF... Is this really true?

Some people are really hungry for negative exposure of the freedom fighters. Anyone who know the true happening in Xamar will tell you that those are "gov't" troops in disguise as insurgents. OMG!!!!!!!!

Ismahan, this is the same character that was just practically cuddling with Twisted_logic about the state of things in Somalia and how "their" clans have a chance of real power at the expense of Muslim blood spilt by a gaalo invader force

Cheap propaganda and even so there have many instances where so called TFG troops have pretended to be of the insurgency to try to work counter-productively against them. Why did the TFG itself implement a "shoot on sight" for TFG hooligans caught in the middle of the acts.

The people of Xamar and everwhere in Somalia have a fundamental right to resist. An foreign army has come to Muslim land and is killing Muslim mothers and kids. who can speak against these valiant people but mujrims and murtads?

Gatspy

It's true saxiib, it's from an article on hiiraan online. The atrocities being committed are from both sides.

Ismahan

It's time to call a spade a spade and condemn these acts instead of pointing fingers and conspiracy theories. How do you know it's government troops and not insurgents as the article says, why would government troops attack the Ethiopians?

You need to condemn all heinous acts no matter who commits them abaayadis. People have a right to resist but not a right to use innocents as shields and weapons

Ican,

U forgot this piece of the article:

A woman is only as safe as her clan is formidable.

Aliya, a 55-year-old woman from Bulo Kontrol whose name has been changed, is certain that the man who pushed through the cloth door of her rag hut to rape her in early December knew that she was not from a powerful clan.

"I don't think they would have raped me if I were Majertan," she said, referring to one of the most powerful sub-clans in Galkayo.

Though two of her nephews tried to chase the man, neighbors warned them not to. Shaming the men could only bring more trouble to the camp.

Even if they had caught him, nobody can remember that a rapist has ever been convicted in a Galkayo court.

AW

That piece of the article has no relevance to the topic, rape is wrong and the perpetrator should be punished no matte their clan affiliation.

But, what do you think of using young girls to detonate bombs and then running away? This is no laughing matter saxiib. These tactics are cowardice.