I almost subconsciously knew that Africa and Somalia would be the first thing to go in the "New" New York Times.
But the Zionist-controlled, shit War Daily isn't RACIST or anything.
Sick of stink Zionists thinking they are better and worth more than everyone else!
"Atrocities detailed in battles in Somalia; Report: Soldiers targeted civilians" by Stephanie McCrummen/Washington Post August 14, 2007
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Ethiopian, Somali, and insurgent forces rampantly violated the laws of war during heavy fighting in the Somali capital of Mogadishu earlier this year, resulting in a "catastrophic" toll on civilians, according to a report released yesterday by the advocacy group Human Rights Watch.
The violations included deliberate, indiscriminate shelling of civilian neighborhoods and hospitals and summary executions of civilians, according to the 113-page report.
Among its details is a transcript of a March radio interview with Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf, whose government was installed by Ethiopian military might in December and has been battling an insurgency in Mogadishu.
The president was asked whether a neighborhood where insurgents were hiding would be bombarded, even if civilians were there.
"Yes we will bombard it," Yusuf responded.
In a statement, the Ethiopian government called the Human Rights Watch report "unfounded" and "irrelevant to the promotion of human rights." There was no immediate response from the Somali government, which has defended its campaign, or from insurgent groups.
The report accused Yusuf's foreign backers, including the United States, of "shameful silence" in the face of the violence.
[Well, we TEND TO DO THAT when it is OUR MURDEROUS THUGS that are in charge!]
The United States supported Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia to oust a an Islamic movement that had taken hold there. US forces subsequently launched three air strikes inside Somalia aimed at Islamic fighters alleged to have terrorist ties.
The rights group said that there was not enough information on the US strikes to determine whether they might have violated international humanitarian laws.
[Aaaah! Bushie and his terrorist mob now apparently ABOVE the LAW!]
The US State Department, which views Ethiopia as a key ally in fighting terrorism in the Horn of Africa, has offered little public criticism of the Ethiopian government's intervention or of the increasingly unpopular Somali government.
[Well, yeah, we DO THAT!]
The Human Rights Watch report is the first independent, detailed accounting of a massive offensive against insurgent groups in March and April. The offensive killed an estimated 1,000 civilians, sent about 400,000 Mogadishu residents fleeing, and touched off weeks of chaotic fighting that Somalis said was the worst since the fall of their last central government in 1991.
[That was AFTER the Ethiopians OCCUPIED the COUNTRY in December!]
The lengthiest descriptions of violations in the report involve Ethiopian forces.
Ethiopian commanders flouted international humanitarian law by firing "inherently indiscriminate" Katyusha rockets into civilian neighborhoods, the report found, and by "routinely and repeatedly" firing rockets, mortars, and artillery in a manner that failed to distinguish between civilians and military targets."
[Yeah, and the shit MSM makes all that crap sound like it was "insurgents" when it happens!
Then they come back later and say these guys did a report?
What SHIT MEDIA in Amurka!]
