Monday, August 22, 2011

Somalia: Two Soldiers Executed in Mogadishu

Mogadishu — Two soldiers of Somali government forces have been executed in Mogadishu after Somalia's military court sentenced them to death.

A firing squad of Somali soldiers fired the sentenced soldiers at a square in Mogadishu's Hamar-jabab district.

Abdi Kus and Abdullahi Jinow were previously given death penalty after they had been found guilty of intentionally murdering their colleagues in the Somali government forces.

After the capital punishment was conducted, Hassan Mohamed Hussein Mungab, the judge the military court told reporters that the executed men had been part in government's military and police forces.

Mungab said they had been proved to have killed deliberately their friends at the government forces.

Source: allAfrica.com, August 22, 2011

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