Somalian military court executes three soldiers guilty of murder
A military court in Somalia executed three soldiers of transitional federal government on Saturday who were found guilty of murder. Scores of local residents packed the square in Mogadishu’s Hamar-jajab where a government firing squad carried out the death penalty in public.
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After the execution, military court Judge Hassan Mohammed Hussein Mungab held a press conference in a police center not far from where the execution took place. “Abdul Azeez Mohyidiin Ga’al, a policeman, was found guilty of murdering another soldier of Somali police forces,” Mungab said, adding that he was sentenced to death in December. “The second executed man, Antob Arabow Addan, killed Hassan Mohammed Sabiye, a civilian, last year.”
The third man executed, Wowlid Mohammed, confessed to murdering a civil servant in 2010, according to Mungab.
Mohammed Hassan Diriye, Somali political analyst, tells AHN that the public executions may help curb the arbitrary often killings committed by Somali government forces.
“Somali soldiers are everywhere in the TFG controlled neighborhoods in Mogadishu. Sometimes, they commit murder among themselves or civilians and that [adds to the] deteriorating security situation of Mogadishu,” Dirye explained.
It is the fourth time Somalia’s military court under the transitional federal government has conducted such executions against Somali police and military soldiers stationed in the capital.
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