Pambazuka News

Somalia: Deadly mosque raid deplored

2008-04-25

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/conflict/47690

A human rights group has accused Ethiopian troops of deliberately "targeting civilians" during a deadly raid on a mosque in the Somali capital Mogadishu that left 21 people dead. But Wahide Belay, a spokesman for the Ethiopian foreign affairs ministry, on Thursday dismissed Amnesty International's report as "total rubbish".