From: wolda002@umn.edu
Date: Thu Jul 10 2008 - 00:27:46 EDT
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=63090§ionid=351020501
Ethiopia breaks UN Somali arms ban
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:52:21
80% of ammunition on sale is from Ethiopian and Somali troops.
About 15 planes loaded with military weapons for Ethiopian troops have
landed in Somalia despite a UN arms embargo on the country.
At least seven flights carrying heavy weapons and military hardware landed
in Baidoa airport about 250km from Mogadishu, while another eight landed in
the capital city's Aden Adde airport, a government official who refused to
be named told Press TV on Tuesday.
The government-backed Ethiopian troops have transported the weapons to
their military bases across Somalia, the official added.
The airport in the breakaway Somaliland has also been used in the past
three days to import massive amounts of artillery into the war-shattered
Horn of Africa nation.
According to the United Nations, Somalia is awash with weapons despite a
1992 weapon ban that followed the collapse of the central government a year
before. Somalia has been engulfed in civil conflict ever since.
Ethiopia and other neighboring African countries have denied accusations by
a UN weapons sanctions committee that their soldiers broke the world body's
arms embargo on the conflict-torn country.
Boats, planes and donkeys mainly transport weapons and military hardware to
Somalia's numerous arms markets. Experts say 80 percent of ammunition on
sale in Somali markets come from Ethiopian and Somali troops.
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