From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Thu Apr 30 2009 - 11:22:23 EDT
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Somalia: Ethiopian troops arrest clan elders
MOGADISHU (Mareeg) - Ethiopian troops have arrested at least 12 Somali
traditional elders in Godey town in the Somali region of eastern
Ethiopia, witnesses on Thursday.
Reports from Qalafo town in the region say that the Ethiopian troops
detained at least 12 traditional elders from Hiran region in central
Somalia after the Ethiopian troops accused the elders that their
children were fighting against the Ethiopian troops in the region.
Sources say that some of the traditional elders were captured as they
were in their houses in the region while the others were captured as
they were continuing peace efforts in the region and the real aim of the
traditional elders' arrest is yet unclear.
Locals said that the Ethiopian troops detained the elders in unknown
military prisons in Ethiopia.
The detention of the Somali traditional elders comes as more Somali clan
elders who went there for mediating rival clan were recently released
from a jail near Musthail town in the Somali region in eastern Ethiopia.
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