YOUNG SOMALIS FLEE MILITIA SIGN-UP
Jul 10th, 2009 by admin
IRIN news says many of the thousands fleeing fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, are young men afraid of being forced into militia groups. An eyewitness near the Kenyan border, some six hundred kilometres south of the capital confirmed that new arrivals are mainly young men. In the past it was mostly women and children hoping to cross the border into Kenya. Fighting between government forces and two armed Islamist opposition groups has escalated since early May. A local human rights groups claims the recent fighting has killed more than 500 people and displaced over 200,000.
