- Title: [SW Country] (Puntin) New Round of Atrocities in Kismayo
- Posted by/on:[AAJ][17 Feb 2001]
A
New Round of Atrocities in Kismayo
from
Puntin - http://www.puntin.org
Kismayo,
a city 500 kilometers to the south of Mogadishu, has witnessed a
series of atrocities since the civil war started.
The city changed hands many a time in the course of Somalia’s
civil war, and each militia group that laid hands on it had to
proclaim a new brand of inhuman treatment. The latest reports from
that city show that those acts of atrocities like rape, murder and
extortion of money still remain unabated.
Kismayo
has been invaded and captured by SNF-USC militias led by Ahmed Barre
Hirale after they wrested the control of the city from the SPM militia
led by General Adan Nur Gabyow and General Mohamed Said Morgan.
SNF-USC has started a campaign of terror, rape and inhuman treatment
against the inhabitants of Kismayo.
It is saddening that the latest victims of these atrocities are
all women. PUNTIN got the names of some of these victims as shown by
the table below.
|
#
|
Name
|
Clan
|
|
1
|
Safiyo
Jama Cigaal
|
Amartiwaq
(Majeerteen)
|
|
2
|
Caasha
Salaad Cawil
|
Ciise
Maxamoud (Majeerteen)
|
|
3
|
Sacdiyo
Cumar Naley
|
Tunni
|
|
4
|
Saynab
Mohamed Indha-cade
|
Nuux
Maxamoud
|
|
5
|
Shariifo
Maxamoud Caddaw
|
Nuux
Maxamoud
|
|
6
|
Sahra
Cusman Omar
|
Majeerteen
(Ciise Maxamoud)
|
|
7
|
Sahra
Xasan Jama
|
Majeereteen
(Cumar Maxamoud)
|
|
8
|
Aamina
Abdi Mohamoud
|
-
Ogaden (Makaahiil)
|
|
9
|
Dugsiyo
Maxamad
|
Ogadeen
(Makaahiil)
|
|
10
|
Faadumo
Kaatun Ciise -
|
Dir
|
|
11
|
Qaali
Xasan Kullaal
|
Ogaden
(Bah Geri)
|
|
12
|
Awliyo
Xasan Kulaal
|
Ogaden
(Bah Geri)
|
The
latest acts of inhumanity are part of a wider campaign to uproot the
non-allied clans from the area and make Kismayo area an own-city.
The
city had witnessed similar clan-cleansing
atrocities (click on the hyperlink to read about the topic) in the
past. In 1992, the SPM-SNA militia led by Col. Ahmed Omar Jess
captured and struck the city with terror in his attempt to eliminate
the “non-desirables” (in his terms) from the city. His militia had
targeted the most prominent members of the Harti clan in the city
including medical doctors, traditional community leaders and
intellectuals and murdered them in cold blood.
The
militias now active in Kismayo has captured the city from the SPM and
allied itself with the newly formed Arta Group which claims to be
“an interim Somali government”
The
Arta Group, contrary to its claim that it will pave the way for
genuine Somali reconciliation, had sent logistics to the militias
controlling the city while it was known to all Somalis that these
atrocities were being committed against the city inhabitants on daily
basis. It has been the subject of heated debate among the Arta members
on Arta Faction’s inconsistency with the claim that it will play a
pivotal role in the Somali reconciliation while it is at the same time
siding and arming one of the parties in the Kismayo conflict..
In
a letter to PUNTIN, women groups in Kismayo call on the international
community for intervention. The letter adds that the city inhabitants
cannot complain to the international community for fear of reprisal.
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