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Ethiopia Still Killing People in Somalia |
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Ethiopian forces killed five people in Mogadishu today. Yes, we’re still supporting Ethiopia; yes, they’re still coopting rhetoric from the war on terror to support the killing of civilians as well as other crimes.
The attack came four days after more than 30 people - mainly civilians - were killed in fighting when Ethiopian forces opened fire on two buses near Mogadishu, according to eyewitnesses.
But the Ethiopian foreign ministry denied its troops killed civilians and put the death toll at only 11.
“The tragic killings of innocent civilians on Friday were not carried out by Ethiopian troops, but rather by al-Shebab insurgents who planted a bomb on the minibus,” it said in a statement on national television.
Who you gonna believe? The Ethiopians have a record of human rights abuses in Somalia.
Your tax dollars go to support murder in Somalia which achieves nothing; after several years, perhaps more, perhaps less, amnesia will set in again and you will be asked (without your knowledge, of course) to pay for another humanitarian or military intervention in Somalia which will likely also achieve nothing.
