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February 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“They assembled all of the girls and said ‘this is an example of what
will happen if you misbehave’,” a teacher at the school told Human
Rights Watch, which conducted more than 160 interviews with Somali refugees
for the report, No Place for Children.
A 19-year-old student from the Bakara district of the capital Mogadishu
described how girls were taken from his school.
“Girls were taken at gunpoint. One girl said she could not go and
al-Shabaab shot her in the forehead in front of my class. They said that she
was a spy for the government. She was 19 years old,” he said.
The forced marriage campaign by the al-Qaeda affiliate is part of its effort
to impose its harsh version of Sharia on every aspect of the personal lives
of women and girls, according to Human Rights Watch.
The report depicts a nightmarish world where the childhoods of boys and girls
are effectively ended at the barrel of a gun and in the short time it takes
heavily armed fighters to force children from their classrooms and on to
waiting trucks.
Though al-Shabaab is guilty of the worst abuses, the Western-backed
Transitional Federal Government (TFG) does not escape censure however.
Researchers were repeatedly told that TFG forces have also recruited children
though without using the same dire coercive tactics.
“Al-Shabaab’s abuses do not excuse the TFG’s use of children as soldiers,”
said Zama Coursen-Neff, deputy childrens’s rights director at Human Rights
Watch.
“The TFG should live up to its commitments to stop recruiting and using
children as soldiers, and punish those who do.”
She added that governments such as Britain’s who support the TFG should “make
clear that abuses won’t be tolerated”.
Activists have been disappointed that human rights barely feature on the
agenda at Thursday’s London conference on Somalia organised by David
Cameron.
“There needs to be much more monitoring and reporting on the human rights
situation,” said Ms Bader.
Despite the multiple abuses and war crimes being committed on a daily basis in
Somalia, the human rights branch of the United Nations has only five
permanent staff working in neighbouring Kenya and the autonomous Somali
regions of Puntland and Somaliland.
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