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| Internally displaced people attacked in Mogadishu |
| 2007-03-05 |
| (SomaliNet) Unknown gunmen have attacked a camp resided by internal displaced people in the Somalia capital just before dawn in early Sunday. The attack took place at former Coca-Cola factory, that houses hundreds of IDP families in southern of the capital. “A group of armed militia men have entered inside the camp and began firing bullets and torturing three young men of the displaced people, beating them with at gun point,” Ahmed Nour, chairman of Coca-Cola camp said. No one was hurt in the attack except the torture done to the young men in the camp. It is not yet known the militiamen had attacked the IDP camp in Mogadishu. The camps of the internal displaced people in Mogadishu are some times become target for gunmen’s attacks including robbing, killing and raping. Thousands of IDPs live in dire conditions in the Somalia capital with fears of mortars and artillery shells exchanged by the insurgents and Ethiopian backed interim government forces. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Are they unarmed, or just cowards? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-03-05 09:47 |