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Mogadishu violence goes on as Hawiye team issues statement
(SomaliNet) The fighting in the Somalia capital Mogadishu is continuing for the sixth day straight but with less magnitude as sporadic gun fire and artillery shells could be heard throughout the city. Unconfirmed report says that about 35 people, all civilians lost their lives in yesterdays exchange between the Ethiopians and the revolutionaries. Meanwhile the Hawiye team of fact-finding mission issued a report on the latest civilian casualty which stands at about 293 people died and 600 wounded in the clashes between 19 to 23 April. This is according to teams spokesman Hussein Siad Qoor-Gaab. 80,000 people were displaced and property worth of millions of dollars were lost within five days of the clashes, reiterated Hussein. He accused Somalis president Abdulahi Yusuf, his prime minister Ali Gedi and the Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi of ordering what he termed as mass murdering of the Somali people. This is the second report from the Hawiye team on the clashes in the capital. Earlier the transitional government dismissed the report as hoax and baseless. Posted by: Fred 2007-04-25 |
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