Willing Executioners: America's Bipartisan Atrocity Deepens in Somalia
by Chris Floyd
Wednesday, 7 May 2008 Until we have a politics that considers the fate of all people to be just as important as the fate of "Americans", there will be no end to this cycle of atrocity and terror, no end to ruin and revenge, no real change, no matter who is elected.Do you want to know what the entire American political establishment -- Democrat and Republican, conservative and "progressive" -- really stands for? Do you want to know what they all support, whole-heartedly, without the slightest objection or demur? Do you want to see their true vision for the world, behind all the pious rhetoric and poisonous lies? Then look no further; here it is, in the raw:
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. (AP)
"The people of Somalia are being killed, raped, tortured; looting is widespread and entire neighbourhoods are being destroyed," said Michelle Kagari, Africa Programme Deputy Director at Amnesty International, speaking from Nairobi.
Witnesses described to Amnesty International an increasing incidence of Ethiopian troops killing by what is locally termed "slaughtering" or "killing like goats" -- referring to killing by slitting the throat. The victims of these killings are often left lying in pools of blood in the streets until armed fighters, including snipers, move out of the area and relatives can collect their bodies.
In one case, a 15-year-old girl found her father with his throat cut upon returning home from school, after Ethiopian security forces swept through her neighbourhood.
Other cases in the report include:
Haboon, a 56-year-old woman from Mogadishu, who said her neighbour's 17-year-old daughter was raped by Ethiopian troops. When her 13 and 14-year-old sons tried to defend their sister, the soldiers beat them and took their eyes out with a bayonet. The mother fled. It is not known what happened to the boys. This girl is in a coma as a result of the injuries she sustained during the attack.
Guled, aged 32, who said that he saw his neighbours "slaughtered". He said he saw many men whose throats were slit and whose bodies were left in the street. Some had their testicles cut off. He also saw women being raped. In one incident, his newly-wed neighbour whose husband was not home was raped by over twenty Ethiopian soldiers. (Garowe Online)
Ceebla'a, aged 63, from Wardhiigley, said she fled Mogadishu on 15 November 2007 with her young children after some shooting in the area. One day she saw three men leaving their shops being picked up by Ethiopian soldiers for investigation. The next morning she saw the bodies of the three men on the street. One was strangled with electrical wire. The second had his throat cut. The third had been chained ankle to wrist, and his testicles had been smashed. (Amnesty report)
These Ethiopian troops were armed, trained and funded by the Bush Administration, then sent into Somalia as a proxy army for yet another Terror War "regime change" operation in late 2006. American military forces have been directly involved in the operation, on the side of the invaders, throughout the conflict, from the very beginning to this day -- as evidenced by the U.S. missile attack last week that killed at least two dozen civilians in the course of an "extrajudicial" assassination of a Somali insurgent leader.
American forces have bombed fleeing refugees, slaughtered innocent herdsmen and destroyed villages in attempts to assassinate a handful of individual alleged, on shaky and specious evidence, to be "part of" or "associated with" or "linked to" al Qaeda. American agents have seized refugees from the Somali war, including U.S. citizens, and had them "renditioned" to the notorious prisons of the Ethiopian dictatorship. And as we have noted here many times, the Bush Administration has sent in death squads to "kill anyone left alive" after American strikes.
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tintsap 1 month ago
አንድ ቀን ፍርድ ይመጣል የወያኔ ልቃሚዎች ትለቀማላችሁ ድሮም የባንዳ ልጆች ናችሁ አሁንም ቅጥረኛ You TPLF "BANDAS" parasite of Ethiopians will pay the price. 'We all know USA Doesn't have Permanent Enemy or Permanent friend but permanent interest is valued for them,once the Somalians got the peace,you will be throwed like piece of rock,Bastard TPLF Mercenaries will face judgment.
theevilofusa 2 months ago
@dapodokumentary USA is the Reason most countries around the world are Horrible.
look at Amount of US military bases around the world... You need to think more what "super power" means... SOmalia was Destroyed by USA. and its Tribes set against each other... just like Libya and IRAQ>..they were better before US invasion.
"opressed and Poor" yeah you mean like Myanmar dictator or Bahrain Or israel that has Excellent relations with USA while killing people.. You need to go to school
TrueLightz 2 months ago
@TrueLightz, USA is not perfect but it`s a lot better than most countries in the World. I can`t think of any muslim country half as decent as America, hence the reason so many of us poor and oppressed people around the World love to migrate there. Somalians have done more harm to one another than any country have done to it.
dapodokumentary 2 months ago
hahah funny fucking Somali idiots, who would fuck Somali women even devil wont fuck them ugly fuckers....FUCK Somalia the whole world hates you to bad now your country is fucked up by hunger hahahah
100kidane 2 months ago
@galbeediboy cause issak r dirty ugly muthafuckers that deserve to die n gettin rape as far for me i dont consider them somali rather darod then these iddor
bellacaroabdourazak 3 months ago