01/02/08 (B432) LDDH : L’UNION AFRICAINE TIENT SA CONFERENCE SOUS HAUT PATRONNAGE ?


Le Président

DIFFUSION D’INFORMATION
DU 30 JANVIER 2008

L’UNION AFRICAINE TIENT SA CONFERENCE
SOUS HAUT PATRONNAGE ?

Le génocide, les crimes de guerre par les Forces armées d’Addis Abeba, ainsi
que les liquidations des Journalistes et des Médecins continuent en Somalie,
les exterminations étouffées se perpétuent en Ogaden , tandis que ces mêmes
forces armées veillent au confort des « Hôtes » présents à la Conférence des
Chefs d’Etat de l’Union Africaine.

Il ne faut surtout pas s’attendre à des prises de position contre l’Impunité, car.

En effet, il sera difficile de voir un Chef d’Etat Africain, qui risquerait de se prononcer contre l’impunité sans être victime du boomerang.

La Ligue Djiboutienne des Droits Humains (LDDH) continue à lancer inlassablement ses Appels contre l’Impunité, pour l’envoi d’une Commission d’Enquête Internationale, afin de permettre l’ouverture d’un Tribunal Spécial sur les génocides et les crimes de guerre dans la Corne d’Afrique y compris le Darfour.

M. NOEL ABDI Jean-Paul

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EAST AND HORN OF AFRICA HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS NETWORK

Public Statement

EHAHRD-Net Index: SOMA 006/005/2008 (Public)

28th January 2008

KAMPALA: EHAHRD-Net CONDEMNS MURDER OF SOMALI JOURNALIST

The killing of journalists in Somalia seems not about to stop as yet another
journalist, Hassan Kafi Hared, is reported to have been killed, this time in
Kismayu town of Lower Jubba region. By the time of his death, he was working
for a government run media institution, the Somali National News Agency
(SONNA), and a Somali website called gedonet.com.

According to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), EHAHRD-Net’s founding member from Somalia, "Hassan Kafi Hared, 36, died around 13:05 hrs after a remote-controlled mine exploded in the middle of a road in Siyad Village in the Northern part of Kismayu". NUSOJ further reports that the mine also claimed the lives of two doctors working for Medecins Sans Frontieres-Holland and their Somali driver. It is not clear who the attackers were and what the motive of the attack was.

"With at least 8 journalists already killed in 2007, EHAHRD-Net is concerned that the murder of Hassan Kafi might just be a continuation of the senseless murders. We highly condemn the continued murder of journalists in Somalia and call upon all sides in the ongoing conflict to restrain their forces from inflicting further misery to the already decapitated media in the country, a situation that has continued to deny the Somali population of their right to information," says Hassan Shire Sheikh, Chairperson

EHAHRDP/Net.