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Most of those waiting to be fed in Mogadishu were women and children.
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Human Rights Watch
Direct Link to Report:
"SO MUCH TO FEAR"
- WAR CRIMES & THE DEVASTATION OF SOMALIA
December
8, 2008
The 104-page
report, "So Much to
Fear: War Crimes and the Devastation of Somalia,"
describes how the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG), the Ethiopian
forces that intervened in Somalia to support it and insurgent forces have
committed widespread and serious violations of the laws of war. Frequent
violations include indiscriminate attacks, killings, rape, use of civilians as
human shields, and looting. Since early 2007, the escalating conflict has
claimed thousands of civilian lives, displaced more than a million people, and
driven out most of the population of Mogadishu, the capital. Increasing attacks
on aid workers in the past year have severely limited relief operations and
contributed to an emerging humanitarian crisis.
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