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Somali Diaspora Congress condemns the daily vicious killing of innocent Somali civilians by the Ethiopian occupiers and the silence of the International community which shows their complicity in these senseless atrocities.

The behaviour of the Ethiopian forces in Somalia is not acceptable; it is an infringement of all international laws and norms. Whenever Somali resistance forces attack invaders, the Ethiopians take revenge against the civilians by bombarding the civilian populated quarters, public places such as mosques, hospitals and public markets indiscriminately.

The daily killings of the civilians still continue. These ruthless actions to deliberately target and massacre the Somali civilian populations are acts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Yet the real scale of the crimes committed by the Ethiopian invaders are mostly unreported by Western media due to the direct American Administration’s diplomatic cover and its complicity in these atrocities in Somalia in what the United Nations has called the “worst humanitarian disaster” in Africa. Since the invasion of Somalia in 2006 by the Ethiopian troops more than 10,000 people have been killed and more than a million people have been displaced from their homes, creating the worst humanitarian disaster in Africa today and further complicating the political landscape of Somalia in its century old political strategy of fragmenting Somalia into smaller regional administrations which report to Addis Ababa. The people of Somalia do not trust the Ethiopian regime in Addis Ababa and their Somali stooges they have recruited to accomplish their sinister but wishful plan. There can be no doubt that the people of Somalia will continue resisting.

On that background the Somali Diaspora Congress urges the International community to act now and demand:

1. Unconditional withdrawal of the Ethiopian occupation forces from all Somalia territory;
2. Immediate return of the displaced people to their homes;
3. Un-hindered access of the humanitarian relief organisations to the millions of people that are suffering of acute shortage of food that could cause mass starvation;
4. End this barbaric attack against the helpless Somali people;
5. Establish an international war crimes tribunal and immediately investigate of all war related crimes committed in Somali.

For more information please contact:

Executive Committee: e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 Somali Diaspora Congress (SDC) is an advocacy organization which opposes the invasion of Somalia and was set up to highlight the crisis in Somalia. It was established on August 28^th, 2007 by Somalis representing Somali Diaspora communities from United Kingdom , Sweden , Norway , Canada , United States of America , Italy , Denmark , Finland , Netherlands , Germany , Belgium and France .

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