US-Backed Ethiopians and Dyncorps Ravaging Somalians--Lenin's Tomb

Tweet "In 2001, as cinema-goers were getting one of their first 'war on terror' fixes with Black Hawk Down, the US was threatening air strikes in Somalia. Six years on, the US-imposed regime of warlords, Dyncorps and Ethiopian tanks in Somalia is waging a terroristic war on inhabitants who refuse to accept its rule. The American proxy war is killing people by the hundreds. Simon Tisdall reports:

"More than 1,000 civilians have been killed or wounded in recent fighting in the capital, Mogadishu, and tens of thousands have fled their homes. The UN says wounded civilians are lying untended in the streets after heavy artillery and mortars pounded residential areas. Since February, 96,000 refugees have swelled the ranks of Somalia's 400,000 internally displaced persons. And despite a temporary truce today, it seems likely that worse is to come.

"Repeating war crimes perpetrated on Somalia by the US in 1993 and 1998, the US recently carried out a massacre of fleeing nomads on the Kenyan border, using "the AC-130, a behemoth designed to shred large areas instantly, in the knowledge that the killing fields would be cleared before journalists and aid workers could reach them.". Some of the others who try to flee are being secretly kidnapped and locked up - "renditioned" in parlance that is no less brutal for being familiar. Human Rights Watch says that "Kenya, Ethiopia, the United States and the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia cooperated in a secret detention program for people who had fled the recent conflict in Somalia", with dozens disappearing into Ethiopia's torture chambers. One such was actually a US citizen