By Abdi Sheikh
Monday, October 06, 2008
MOGADISHU, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Mortar attacks in Somalia's capital killed 15 more people on Monday and 50 aid agencies appealed against "horrendous" violence as Islamist insurgents battle the government and its Ethiopian military backers.
Residents in Mogadishu said insurgents fired artillery rounds at the presidential palace from the city's Bakara Market, prompting guards at the hilltop compound to return fire.
Witnesses said three soldiers were killed at the palace, while a dozen civilians died in the streets below.
Abdinasir Said, a Bakara shopkeeper, said he saw six people blown to pieces by a mortar bomb that detonated in the market.
"We have been carrying the injured ones to safety after the shelling stopped," he told Reuters by telephone.
Another man was killed in the market. Nearby, residents said a woman, her three children and a family friend were killed when another mortar bomb crashed onto their home.
The barrages were just the latest example of violence in the Somali capital that has displaced some 37,000 people in recent weeks, swelling an internal refugee population of 1.1 million, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) said on Monday.
More than 50 NGOs issued a statement expressing concern about the "devastating humanitarian crisis" and "horrendous" violence in the country.
Aid workers say the world is shrugging its shoulders at yet more suffering in Somalia, which has been mired in civil conflict since the 1991 fall of a dictator.
"Nearly half of Somalia's population, or 3.25 million people, are now in need of emergency aid. This is a 77 percent increase since the beginning of 2008," the NGOs said.
"HORRENDOUS IMPACT"
"This number has increased dramatically over the past year due to the destructive combination of extreme insecurity, drought and record-high food prices. The situation is expected to deteriorate further with ordinary Somalis bearing the brunt."
U.N.-led efforts to broker peace have not brought any lessening of violence "that continues to have a horrendous impact on civilians", they said.
"In the last few weeks, renewed shelling in Mogadishu has displaced approximately 37,000 civilians from their homes. Over the past nine months, 870,000 have fled for their lives. A total of 1.1 million people are currently displaced in Somalia today."
The NGOs criticised all parties in the Somali conflict for indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force. They noted that attacks on aid workers were hurting humanitarian efforts.
"This year alone 24 aid workers, of which 20 are Somali nationals, have been killed whilst carrying out their work. The whereabouts of another ten are unknown. There have been 111 reported security incidents directly targeting aid agencies." (Additional reporting by Andrew Cawthorne in Nairobi; Writing by Daniel Wallis; Editing by Louise Ireland).
Source: Reuters, Oct 06, 2008
Dalkaygasomalia
What guul you are talking about. In dad maata ah lagu garaaco madfac mayaad guul u taqaan. Awalba mooryaan baad ahay aan dad soomaliya oo dhimanaya kala jeclayn. Somali waxay noqon lahayd wadan caadi ah, haddii Almooryaan (Alshabaab) laga qaban lahaa. Qaar waa la layn, qaar waa laqaban oo maxkamad la soo taagin. They are rats fetch them out from their wholes and kill them.
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guul al-shabaab
dadka kaliya ee xabadda ridaya ee itoobiyaanka bakhtigooda ka booday waa
al-shabaab waana kuwa soomaali meel uga soo baxay, waxan kale ee iska
hadlaya sida ninka ilyas1 la baxay ee afka-shisheeye ku hadlaya cidina
kalama tashaneyso arrimaha soomaaliya.
ilyas1 soo baro afka-soomaaliyeed sida loo qoro
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One day i promise you that so will
pay for the killing of innocences in Somalia
and Hiding behind the religion. since when did
teenagers become religion leaders like come on
be realistic. Same goes out to the gov't and the clowns
he carries.
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Civilians need to move to kismanyo which is safe and get the hell out of the way, let us roast alive those ugandan ni99ers. get out of the way. PLEASE....stop shopping at bakara market.
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addoonta sanbuuqadda weyn ee soomaaliya laga eryey
waxaa ay ahayd arrin sax ah loona baahnaa.
sidoo kale ummadda soomaaliyeed shareecada ISLAAMKA
ayey qaateen, itoobiyaanka bakhtigiisa meel walibaa
ayuu tuuran yahay waana la gubayaa bakhtigooda
guusha waxay ku dambeysaa Al-Shabaab iyo ummadda soomaaliyeed
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAs-_KwhJAU
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO8jk6NtZpo&feature=related
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Alshabab had declared long ago, that they will continue the war even if the Ethiopian leave. Therefore, they got ulterior motives that some of their supporters are questioning their acts lately. No one fires a single bullet or mortar, unless alshabab are attacking the Government, Ethiopian and AMISOM.
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Both sides need to respect the welbeing of the civilian population.Both sides have responsibilities
we can not blame Al-shabaab only.I think things would be better without the Ethiopians,because there was no such mass displacement before they came here.
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"Residents in Mogadishu said insurgents fired artillery rounds at the presidential palace from the city's Bakara Market, prompting guards at the hilltop compound to return fire".
This is deliberate act and alshabab are out there to harm the civilians 100%. I guess, they are using this method in order to punish the local residents, who are not joining these criminal killers quest.
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