Seems like our proxy invaders and occupiers (Ethiopia) are no better than the CIA-backed war lords the Islamists got rid of.
Oh, the Ethiopians and U.S.-backed "government" are using the same folks, o.k.
"Amnesty Intl: Ethiopian troops commit atrocities in Somalia"
"A leading human rights group on Tuesday accused Ethiopian troops in Somalia of killing civilians and committing atrocities, including slitting people's throats, gouging out eyes and gang-raping women.
In a new report, Amnesty International detailed chilling witness accounts of indiscriminate killings in the Horn of Africa country and called on the international community to stop the bloodshed....
The London-based rights group said testimony it received suggested all parties to Somalia's conflict have committed war crimes. But it singled out Ethiopian troops, who are in the country to back Somalia's U.N.-sponsored government, for some of the worst violations....
The rights group said it obtained scores of reports of killings by Ethiopian troops that Somalis have described as "slaughtering like goats." In one case, "a young child's throat was slit by Ethiopian soldiers in front of the child's mother," the report says....
Indescribable horror!!!
Amnesty said some 6,000 civilians were reported killed and more than 600,000 were forced to flee their homes in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, last year.
"The people of Somalia are being killed, raped, tortured. Looting is widespread and entire neighborhoods are being destroyed," Michelle Kagari, Amnesty's deputy director for Africa, said in a statement from Nairobi that accompanied the report.
Somehow that escapes my Zionist-controlled American War Daily -- unless the occupiers are killed or threatened, or AmeriKa takes a pot shot at a phantom "Al-CIA-Duh."
The report quotes testimony from some 75 witnesses as well as scores of workers from non-governmental organizations. People are identified only by their first names to protect them from retaliation.
In one testimony, Haboon, 56, said her neighbor's 17-year-old daughter was raped by Ethiopian troops. The girl's brothers tried to defend their sister, but the soldiers beat them and gouged their eyes out with a bayonet, Haboon was quoted as telling Amnesty.
!!!!!!!
"The testimony we received strongly suggests that war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity have been committed by all parties to the conflict in Somalia and no one is being held accountable," Kagari said...."
If I recall correctly, the U.S. BLOCKED INVESTIGATION into these WAR CRIMES!!!!
"even if there were compelling evidence of war crimes, the case would probably never get to court.... the American government would resist the European effort because Ethiopia is a close American ally."
More:
As reported by USA today in January 2007 : (http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-07-ethiopia_x.htm):
"The United States has quietly poured weapons and military advisers into Ethiopia, whose recent invasion of Somalia opened a new front in the Bush administration's war on terrorism."
"Last month, thousands of Ethiopian troops invaded neighboring Somalia and helped overturn a fundamentalist Islamic government that the Bush administration said was supported by al-Qaeda." -- Mike Rivero of whatreallyhappened.com
Also see my Somalia labels
