There are military movements for possible civil war in the Somalia capital Mogadishu as hundreds of the transitional government troops including fighters of the Islamic Courts Union were deployed in the city’s main streets on Friday, reports said.
This comes following the killing of senior of ICU militia officer along with his security guard in a shootout with fighters loyal to the radical Islamists in the capital as day before gunmen suspected to belong to the Islamic rebel insurgents killed a member of the Somalia parliament which angered the people in the Mogadishu.
Thousands of displaced people that returned to their homes in the capital could be seen turned out on the roads in their villages fearing for outbreak of war as business centre were closed with each of the traders in the markets of Mogadishu carrying gun to keep guard their property.
Minister of interior in the government of the national unity Sheik Abdukadir Ali Omar who was speaking to the public through the media said his government will engage war with what he called ‘the peace killers’ noting he run out of the patience when militants of Al-Shabab gunned down a member of the parliament formerly belonging to the Islamic Courts Union Abdulahi Saed Abtidon and senior ICU militia commander Sharif Mohamud Hassan known as ‘Kariye’ in two consecutive days. Furthermore, Al-Shabab threatened to kill elders of Hawiye transitional council if they continue the efforts of peace.
There is high tension of war in Mogadishu as most of its people believe what is currently going on is a move of ethnic cleansing against Hawiye people with the reference to the killings ensuing only to the Hawiye. The prominent Hawiye poets in Mogadishu who were spearheading the war struggle that forced the Ethiopian troops out of Somalia were seen using loud speaker telling the people to fight against Al-Shabab elements.
Source: Mareeg.com
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