2007

Slain Ethiopian troops paraded in Mogadishu

Slain Ethiopian troops paraded in Mogadishu Masked Islamist insurgents on the back of trucks paraded what they said were the bodies of three Ethiopian soldiers in the streets of Mogadishu on Friday, an AFP correspondent reported. The show of defiance by the Shabab, the radical armed wing of the main Somali Islamist movement, came as a four-day lull was shattered by renewed fighting in the capital's southern neighbourhoods. "We will keep killing them until they get out of our country," said one of the gun-toting insurgents, shouting from the back of pick-up, the kind that has become a symbol of Somalia's 17-year-old lawlessness. His face hidden behind a red turban, the Islamist fighter and his two fellow insurgents toured the southern Barua district for several minutes with their gruesome trophy. 'We will keep killing them until they get out of our country' "The people who invaded our country are dying every day in the fighting," an AFP reporter heard the man shout. Witnesses confirmed an artillery duel between Ethiopian forces and insurgents in the nearby Gupta neighbourhood, in the first night marred by major clashes since Ali Mohamed Gedi resigned from the premiership on Monday.