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Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organization, issued a report Tuesday documenting widespread atrocities against Somali civilians by Ethiopian occupation forces and troops of the US-backed Somali government. The report, entitled “Routinely Targeted: Attacks on Civilians in Somalia,” presents a harrowing picture of a humanitarian disaster compounded by terror against free ringtones for verizon wireless cell phone cellular download free phone ringtones phone ringtones sprint free ringtones and wallpaper free crazy frog ringtones pcs ringtones sprint vision blue tooth free ringtones mobile phone ringtones virgin info nokia remember ringtones download ringtones motorola samsung ringtones free phone ringtones verizon wireless free verizon wireless ringtones gold mp3 ringtones nextel real music ringtones blue tooth free ringtones nextel ringtones country music ringtones send free ringtones to your phone 24 ringtones theme the civilian population in the form of summary executions, torture, rape and arbitrary detention.
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Soldiers, insurgents and bandits routinely target civilians in Somalia for rape, robbery and murder, according to an Amnesty International report that includes interviews with dozens of refugees who recently fled Somalia. Somalis run through the streets of Mogadishu on Monday to protests food prices.

The report, released Tuesday, said civilians are caught in the middle as Ethiopian soldiers and troops of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) battle remnants of the Islamic Courts Union, which was ousted by Ethiopian forces in 2006. (more…)

The report said that in one case a child’s throat was slit by Ethiopian soldiers in front of his mother. MOGADISHU — Ethiopian troops in Somalia are increasing perpetrating gruesome crimes against Somali civilians, including throat-slitting executions, Amnesty International (AI) said in a new report released on Tuesday, May 6.
“The people of Somalia are being killed, raped, tortured; looting is widespread and entire neighborhoods are being destroyed,” Michelle Kagari, AI’s Africa Program deputy director, said in a statement cited by Agence France-Presse.

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MOGADISHU, Somalia - Ethiopian troops allied to Somalia’s shaky western-back government opened fire on civilians today, killing 13 of them after losing two soldiers in an explosion. incident occurred on the streets of Baidoa, a town in the southwest that is home to the Somali Parliament . (more…)

Ethiopian forces and forces of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) have been accused of targeting civilians in an attack on a Mogadishu mosque on Saturday. Twenty-one people were killed in the attack, which Amnesty International has said may constitute a war crime. (more…)

Amnesty International has accused Ethiopian troops in the Somali capital of “targeted killing of civilians” during a deadly raid on a mosque. Somalians prepare the body of a man who was killed in fighting Monday between militants and Ethiopian forces. A spokesman for Ethiopia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, Wahide Belay, has called Wednesday’s Amnesty report “total rubbish.”

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Somalia: Ethiopian troops vacate villages in Somali capital after bloody clashes. As more bodies have been discovered, the Ethiopian troops in the recent times based in villages of Heliwa neighborhood north of Somali capital Mogadishu have pulled out there on Wednesday morning-residents said. (more…)

Somali Concern Group PRESS RELEASE. Somali Concern Group (SCG) is horrified by the enormity of the Ethiopian brutality against civilian population in Mogadishu, using heavy artillery, tanks and multiple rocket launchers with the intention to cause maximum death and destruction. SCG condemns the barbaric actions of the Ethiopian occupation forces and holds Meles Zenawi and his generals in Mogadishu entirely responsible for the war crimes committed against the civilian population. (more…)