Garowe (RBC) Hundreds of demonstrators from Internal Displaced People in Garowe town of Puntland have marched on Friday in the streets of the town to condemn what they described as Federal Government’s inciting clan-based clashes in Middle Shabelle region, RBC Radio reports.
The demonstrators waved anti-president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud slogans calling the president to withdraw armed militias loyal to the government from the towns in the region where they said “were seized by forcibly”.
“It is unfortunately that our new government started to arm militias and incite clanish clashes in Middle Shabelle region” Mukhtar Abukar Hussein, an IDP elder living in Garowe said.
He said that some clans attacked his home town near Jowhar two weeks ago and killed civilians. He allegedly said that the militias were members of Somali government forces but such allegations could not be independently verified.
The demonstrators- men and women from Garowe IDP camps called the president of Somali Federal Government Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to intervene the tensions in the region and immediately remove the one-clan militias from the seized towns.
The Federal Government of Somalia has earlier condemned the clan-based wars in the Middle and Lower Shabelle regions calling the warring sides to halt without condition.
The demonstration came as ministerial committee appointed by Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon started to reach the two regions to mediate between the warring militias.
RBC Radio
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