[Al Ahram] Three suspected Shabaab Islamic gunnies were executed by firing squad in Mogadishu on Sunday, Somali police said. All three had been condemned to death for murder, police chief Abdi Mohammed told AFP, with one of the men allegedly taking part in an assault on the presidential palace last month.
The executions come three days after another Somali MP was assassinated by Shabaab guerrillas in the capital, the fifth this year, as the gunnies step up their attacks in Mogadishu to counter claims that their insurgency is waning.
"Three Al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
members including the one who facilitated the last attack on the presidential palace were executed this morning," Mohammed said.
The men were shot in front of a small crowd of military officials and spectators at the police academy in Mogadishu.
Two other Shabaab Lion of Islams, who allegedly confessed to killing a student who worked for an NGO, were publicly executed in the capital on July 15.
The Somali government, which only controls part of the war-ravaged country, executed 15 people in 2013, according to
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
in the northeast.
Human Rights Watch
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(HRW) has severely criticised the "unequal" way military courts are run, with normal procedures not followed. They claim the tribunals -- which the country's fragile government uses to try Shabaab rebels -- had condemned dozens of people to death last year.