By MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED (AP)
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Internal African Union reports say AU peacekeepers are indiscriminately shelling residential areas of Somalia's capital.An AU report stamped "Internal Use Only" says that if indiscriminate shelling continues the force will lose the support of Somalis.
But an AU force spokesman, Maj. Barigye Bahoku, denied Wednesday that AU forces kill civilians. Bahoku blamed the deaths on Somali extremists who attacks government and AU troops.
Civilians have suffered through nearly two decades of violent chaos in Somalia's capital.
An al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group said last week it had carried out twin bombings in Uganda that killed 76 people because of the high number of civilian deaths caused by AU peacekeepers in Somalia.
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