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Ethiopian Troops Kill More Than 40 People  

By Salaad Iidow Hasan (Hiis), Hiiraan Online
sxiis@hiiraan.com
Friday August 15, 2008
 

Mogadishu, Somalia (HOL) – Ethiopian troops have killed  more than 40 people this afternoon in an area near the town of Afgoye known as Arbiska. The people were civilians traveling in passenger vehicles.
 
The victims were in two passenger vehicles. The killing of these civilians appears to be intentional as Ethiopian troops continued to fire on the passengers until there was no movement (perhaps to make sure everyone in the vehicles is dead).
 
This brutal killing of civilians riding in passenger vehicles seems the worst atrocity aimed at passengers although in the past Ethiopian troops killed unarmed civilians in several occasions and at several places.
 
The number of civilians Ethiopian troops killed in the last 24 hours exceeds 50 when we include other civilians Ethiopian troops killed this morning in an area near former military camp located off the main road that links Mogadishu and Afgoye and others who were killed near Makka  Al-Mukarrama street.
 
The killings of these civilians by Ethiopian troops comes at a time when this morning Ethiopian troops were targeted with explosions in the area between Mogadishu and Afgoye as well as four attacks they faced several days ago when they were traveling on the main road that links Mogadishu and Baidoa.
 
English adaptation by Mohamed Amin Ahmed, Hiiraan Online
mamin35@hiiraan.com
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 OK shanta i get your point...the long history of conventional warfare tells
us that the loss of human life is enevitable, this form of assymetrical warfare further
deteriorates this unfortunate factor in war.. my simple point is that the goverment of the day and the ethiopian
goverment are by no means alterntives to our problems and perhaps even some in the opposition but what i have seen by some elements
in the opposition is something different i see a kind of sparkle something better a viable option?....how can we know that the intended aim was to  to trigger such an action, i mean i cant remember the islamic courts looting or killing indiscriminately( maybe a few blunders), yes a portion of their men might have a history with the civil war but
this does not resemble the rest of the fighters( what about the TFG make a comparison), who are simply made of ordinary somalis no longer able to withstand the occupation of their homeland( many leaving there comfortable lives in external states), i dont want to get into the nitty gritty
of this is no party is perfect but some are better than others and in this moment of crisis we cannot stand with the current TFG who have shamed and exposed us naked and vulnerable to the world, we are no longer a proud people..we are a hopeless people
SHANTA please layout your claims against the opposition as a whole and other groups which you oppose( onlf etc.) and what are your alternatives and who do you recognise as a group or person who can bring our nation together...i think your views represents mainstream western media...you need to dig deeper to understand
certain things.
 Furthermore, if the Warlords are enemy of the State, then by all means eliminate them. Their residencies and whereabouts are too well known for any group interested in targeting. Instead of eliminating the innocent civil servants, educated Somalia, and many more personalities involved in bettering the lives of our countrymen: the warlords are untouchables, even when caught they are released on their own recognizance!  
 Abdul P
Pointing out the atrocious miscalculation played by a group whose contempt and disregard for human life to be a replica of the previous carnage carried out by the former practitioners of daily violence; if that is anti-Somalia then I guess that majority of you are right and the rest of us are wrong. Considering the enemy’s reaction should be one that matters when planning such attack to occur, other than what Al-Haram considers an opportunity to strike at any given moment, and realizing the repercussions ensued soon after to be a motivating factor in your psyche for supporting them. In this point, the aggressors are not punished, but defended to be freedom fighters waging a liberation war, while the reaction of the enemy is made to be a malicious indiscriminate attempt to punish the innocent public, who by the way were travelling along that road without the fear of being targeted by two camps- had they known, then the road would have been off limit and found an alternative.
 shanta to try an justify this horrific action is really
criminal, i deplore your spin..your emotions have been consumed by
perhaps your clannish fevor...your uncle abdullahi yusuf is a warlord hell bent
on securing his clannish ideology...i see no point in following this man and supporting
i doubt he knows the meaning of democracy i would rather dictator barre who ommitted much more nationalism
than this sadistic creature...i am saddened by such an occurrence...your support for ethiopia is a tragedy perhaps you dont know them
your family has never lived in the ogaden have they or mogadishu....your politically astray ...see i support your decision to condemn the southern
warlords..however your view on the young men burning with nationalism perhaps a bit firey and inexperienced in politics is wrong ...i call upon all somalis
to support movements such as the ARS( sheik sharif), the ONLF,and others who are true patriots and true to what somalia or greater somalia is...we must be strong in our resolve
we cannot allow this dark period to destroy us every nation-state has been through this...others have dealt with it better our struggle is been hampered by some big states(USA) and a poor autocratic and dictatorial regime(ethiopia)
and typical to every conflict( the warlord, clannist and plain puppets and blind supporters)
 Collateral damage is not something new. The better days are still a head with stable government and less mooryaan that took hostage for the whole country.



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