From: Yemane Natnael (yemane_natnael@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Aug 04 2008 - 12:15:14 EDT
Somalis demand president step down
Mon, 04 Aug 2008
Thousands
of protestors have rallied against Somali president demanding he step
down, while showing support for the country's premier.
"We
ask the international community to issue arrest warrants for President
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and the mayor of Mogadishu, Mohammed Dheere, who
are responsible for the massacre of more than half a million of our
people," demonstrators rallying in north Mogadishu said in a statement
on Monday.
"These merciless warlords must be tried for the daily agonies they
have imposed on our men, women and children, by inviting Ethiopian
soldiers to our country," the statement read, adding that "we support
Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein (Nur Adde) and his newly-appointed
ministers in these trying times."
The protest was triggered by a dispute between the president and
the prime minister, over the dismissal of Mogadishu mayor -- a close
ally of President Abdullah Yusuf -- last Tuesday on the grounds of
embezzlement, incompetence, insubordination and abuse of power.
The dispute led to the resignation of 10 cabinet ministers, many of them allied to the president.
However, ignoring calls on him to step down, Nur Adde on Sunday
named six new ministers to fill in the vacated posts, adding he would
name the remaining ministers "after consultations with the people as to
the best person to fill in those positions".
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