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| Africa Horn |
| Executions Increase in Somalia |
| 2017-05-17 |
 [SHABELLENEWS] In Somalia, a country long troubled by deadly violence, there’s a disturbing new trend: an increase in summary executions.Somali military courts and the turban group al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... have each executed about a dozen people so far in 2017, all of them killed in public settings as crowds of between 30 and 300 people looked on. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 The answer: the sudden increase has drawn the attention of human rights groups like Amnesty International It's fund-raising time. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-05-17 10:35 |
| #2 So this is newsworthy, why? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-05-17 10:23 |
| #1 have each executed about a dozen people so far in 2017, that's a long hot weekend in Chicago |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-05-17 08:51 |