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| Mogadishu violence goes on as Hawiye team issues statement |
| 2007-04-25 |
| (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 yesterday’s 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 team’s 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 Somali’s 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 |
| #6 My point was that in country like Somalia everyone can claim to speak for anybody else. I don't believe that thos Hawiye, as a whole, support anybody particular. |
| Posted by: trenchsol 2007-04-25 20:39 |
| #5 Hawiye is a large clan with many subclans I have the feeling that it's going to be a much SMALLER clan, with or without subclans, if they keep messin' with the Ethiopians. The Ethiopians gave the Italians all they could handle during the short time Italy occupied the nation. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-04-25 11:20 |
| #4 Hawiye is a large clan with many subclans in central part of Somalia. Well known subclan, Habar Gedir (Battle of Mogadishu - Blackhawk Down), was the last force resisting ICU before they took Mogadishu last year. Current TFG interrior minister, Hussein Aideed, is a prominent member of Habar Gedir, as well as terrorist Dahir Aweys (ICU, Al-Itihaad). I think that situation is much more complicated, and it is questionable who claims to speak in front of Hawiye. |
| Posted by: trenchsol 2007-04-25 10:42 |
| #3 According to Al-J, they're 'allied'. More likely an alliance of convenience. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2007-04-25 09:58 |
| #2 Allied or one and the same? Hard to tell, but it doesn't really matter. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2007-04-25 01:10 |
| #1 Hawiye team of fact-finding mission... accused SomaliÂ’s 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. The Hawiye clan is allied with the Islamists and if anyone is an expert in mass murder, it's these clowns. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2007-04-25 00:13 |