The dire human rights and humanitarian crisis facing the people of
Somalia has been revealed in a groundbreaking new Amnesty International
report.
Amnesty International refutes statements made by the Ethiopian
government on its report about a raid on the Al Hidya Mosque in
Mogadishu on 19 April 2008. In the attack, Ethiopian forces killed at
least 21 people, including 11 unarmed civilians inside the mosque, and
detained at least 40 children and youths, aged 9 to 18.
Ethiopian forces and forces of the Transitional Federal Government of
Somalia (TFG) have been accused of targeting civilians in an attack on
a Mogadishu mosque that left 21 dead.
Amnesty International today called on the Ethiopian military to release
some 41 children held after a raid on Mogadishu’s Al Hidya mosque on 19
April 2008, which left 21 people dead. “The safety and welfare of the children, some as young as nine years
old, must be paramount for all parties,” said Amnesty International.
Amnesty International today revealed the extent of the repression facing Somali journalists trying to report on the continuing conflict in the war-torn country, saying that the threat to Somali journalists is now the worst it has been since the overthrow of the Siad Barre government in 1991.
Journalists in Somalia are being killed for reporting the truth about
the country's bloody conflict.
At least 140 men, women and children fleeing conflict in Somalia were arrested by Kenyan authorities between 30 December 2006 and February 2007 as they tried to enter Kenya.
