From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Tue Aug 12 2008 - 17:29:27 EDT
Ethiopia recalls general from Somalia
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:17:57 GMT
The commander of Ethiopian forces in Somalia has been called back to his
country for his failure to bring peace to the war-torn nation.
Ethiopia's government ordered General Gabre Heard as well as a colonel
connected to the Ethiopian secret intelligence agency to return to the
country for failing to perform their duties, a Press TV correspondent
reported Tuesday.
The men have since been replaced by two new Ethiopian army commanders in
what has been described as a discreet handing-over ceremony in
Mogadishu.
General Gabre had been accused by the former deputy prime minister of
Somalia, Hussein Mohamed Farah Aideed, of allowing the killing and
displacing of thousands of Somali civilians.
But Gabre and the unnamed colonel were reportedly also called back
because of their suspected involvement in financial scandals including
the blackmailing of the Somali president, prime minister and various
businessmen.
Both men are thought to have gained large sums of wealth from the war in
Somalia.
Somalia has been without an effective central government since President
Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991. In 2006, US-backed Ethiopian troops
invaded the country in an attempt to back Somalia's Transitional Federal
Government (TFG).
Thousands of civilians have been killed and displaced as a result of the
continuous violence in the war-torn country.
HE/MR/BGH
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