Saturday, May 14, 2011
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It's a gruesome display seen many times in Mogadishu: The bodies of dead soldiers dragged through the streets.Somalis angry over the violence brought by 20 years of fighting say they do it in hopes of driving African Union forces out of their country.
The latest incident happened Thursday, when the body of a fighter who appeared to be an AU soldier was pulled through the streets by a rope.
The most infamous occurrence was in 1993, when fighters dragged a U.S. soldier through the streets after a disastrous U.S. military assault into the Somali capital described in the book and movie "Black Hawk Down." That episode hastened the U.S. withdrawal from the East African nation.
The AU mission spokesman says body draggings won't result in an AU withdrawal.
Source: CBS