From: Berhane Habtemariam (Berhane.Habtemariam@gmx.de)
Date: Tue Apr 07 2009 - 11:36:31 EDT
Mass graves found in ex-Ethiopian bases
Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:18:01 GMT
Somalis have discovered the remains of dead bodies from former Ethiopian
army bases and at a soccer stadium in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
At least 7 mass graves were exhumed on Monday at the vacated Mogadishu
soccer stadium. The remains were allegedly of individuals who had gone
missing a year ago and apparently later shot by Ethiopian troops during
their occupation of Somalia, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Meanwhile, Somali men recovered dead bodies from 4 others graves in the
Tawfiq district of northern Mogadishu. Witnesses said the graves contained
between 20 and 31 corpses.
In another disclosure, local residents dug up dead bodies from 9 graves at
former Ethiopian army bases in Mogadishu's northern Gupta and Yaaqshid
districts.
Conflicts in Somalia intensified and unlawful killings of civilians
increased after Ethiopian troops entered Somalia at the end of 2006 to help
the 'Transitional Federal Government' fight armed opposition groups, some of
whom issued from the Union of Islamic Courts, which was controlling the
capital Mogadishu and other parts of the country in 2006.
Ethiopian troops withdrew at the end of 2008 and Abdullah Yusuf resigned as
President of the TFG, and was replaced by Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, then leader
of the opposition Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia- Djibouti
(ARS-Djibouti).
http://www.presstv.ir/photo/20090407/pirhayati20090407023301156.jpg
A Somali man looks over the remains of individuals that were allegedly shot
by Ethiopian troops during their occupation of parts of Somalia.
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