Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
Abdinasir Mohamed Guled
3 July 2008
Three people have separately been killed in the sprawling Somali capital on Wednesday according to eyewitnesses.
The first killing took place at Sayidka area east of Mogadishu when Somali government soldiers have shot dead one civilian was walking there eyewitness said.
The second killing happened later than armed groups with pistols have shot dead well-known businessman as well Mogadishu university lecturer that is to say Abdikarin Dhiblawe on linking road Bakara market and Dabka Toll Street in Mogadishu.
Its yet unknown the motive/groups behind his killing.
The third man was shot dead near Banadir Junction south of Mogadishu by unidentified men with revolvers.
Else where unknown armed men have shot dead Somali soldier in Suq Bacad (the second Somalia's main market) on Wednesday eyewitnesses said.
The assassins have suddenly escaped from the scene after the killing of the soldier.
Civilians are completely at the mercy of armed groups and armed soldiers in Somalia, says human rights group Amnesty International.
It says the situation is "dire" in the centre and the south with government troops, their Ethiopian allies and Islamist insurgents "out of control".
They carry out killings, torture, rape, beatings, arbitrary detention and forced disappearances, a report says.
The Ethiopian government has dismissed the report as a "total fabrication" and demanded an apology.
"It is deplorable that Amnesty International has lent itself to an obviously disgraceful smear campaign against the armed forces of Ethiopia, using highly emotive, even racist language," Ethiopia's foreign affairs ministry said in a statement.
It said that Amnesty was also ignoring widespread human rights abuses committed by Somali militants.
"We have said repeatedly that our soldiers are the most disciplined soldiers in the world," said foreign ministry spokesman Wahide Belaye.
"They have never cut anybody's throat, never gang-raped any women, never deliberately shot civilians in Somalia."
In Mogadishu, hundreds of people have stormed through the Bakara market area, hurling stones at cars and shops and setting fire to tyres in protest at rising food prices and fake currency.
Troops shot two people dead on Monday in similar protests.
People who have visited the capital, Mogadishu, recently say parts of it are a ghost town, but Amnesty says residents fleeing the city are prey for armed bandits on the road who rape women and girls and steal whatever they have taken with them.
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