Somalia’s state minister for defense, Sheik Yusuf Mohamed Siad (Indho Ade), said Thursday that the government will end the chaos and the fighting in the capital by force.
The state minister said the government was planning to solve the wars in Mogadishu by military force against the Islamist rebels.
Sheik Yusuf said the Islamist groups rejected to negotiate with the government and started the fighting which is ongoing in Mogadishu.
Hundreds of Somali civilians were killed and thousands were displaced since the Islamist groups started their major offensive against the fragile government led by president Sharif Sheik Ahmed on 7 May 2009.
Sheik Yusuf Mohamed Siad better known as Indho Ade was among the Islamist rebels but he denounced the violence against the civilians and joined the government recently.
The speech of the state minister comes as fierce fighting between government soldiers and Islamists erupted in Dharkeynley district in Mogadishu on Thursday.
Separately, Islamists flogged five men accused of being committed acts against Islamic religion in Afgoye town 30 km south of Mogadishu.
Mohamed Abdirahman Mohamed, Afgoye district commissioner addressed the people in the town who have gathered in a park where the accused men have been whipped and warned the people against committing of un-Islamic acts.
Source: Mareeg
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