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US-Backed forces in Somalia massacre 40 civilians
How much longer is the government going to keep funding and supporting Ethiopia and the pro-western administration in Somalia when they do things like this?
Joint government and Ethiopian
soldiers shot dead more than 40 civilians after they dismounted them from
civilian vehicles in southwestern Mogadishu witnesses and elders
said.
It was the latest in a series in which The Ethiopian and
Somali troops have killed civilians who have come too close to troops wary of
attacks by rebels.
The troops have pulled up civilian
vehicles at Arbiska area near Afgoi district ordering the passengers to drop
down from the vehicles where some of the handcuffed travelers were shot dead
while other were shot dead in the vehicles they were
traveling.
"When the vehicle was stopped the soldiers, fearing an
attack, arbitrarily fired on it," it said. The man died later of his
wounds.
Dozens others were wounded in that attack those were rushed to Mogadishu
hospitals.
No comments could be reached from the
government/Ethiopian officials on this incident.
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