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1 May 2009 Professor Mohamed Omar Dalha, the
deputy speaker of the Somali parliament has said on
Wednesday that they have released more Somali people
who were in the prisons of Syria
Professor Dalha who returned in Mogadishu on
Tuesday told Shabelle radio that they had met with the
Syrian president and requested him to release many
Somali people who were in the jails of his country
saying that the Syrian president accepted their
request and achieved to release about 100 Somali
prisoners in Syria that the Syrian government accused
of being behind explosions occurred in that country.
The deputy speaker of the Somali legislature
professor Mohamed Omar Dalha also said that they are
planning to release many other Somali prisoners who
are detained in many different countries calling for
the Somali people to unite and halt the conflicts
between them.
Professor Dalha said that it is unfortunate to
continue fighting in Somalia for period of 20 years
expressing that it is a divine catastrophe from Allah.
Traditional Elders Detained in
Eastern Ethiopia
Meanwhile, at least 12 Somali traditional elders
have been arrested by Ethiopian troops in Godey town
in the region of Somalia in eastern Ethiopia,
witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
Reports from Kalafe town in the region say that the
Ethiopian troops detained at least 12 traditional
elders from Hiran region in central Somalia after the
Ethiopian troops accused the elders that their
children were fighting against the Ethiopian troops in
the region.
Sources say that some of the traditional elders
were captured as they were in their houses in the
region while the others were captured as they were
continuing peace efforts in the region and the real
aim of the traditional elders' arrest is yet unclear.
Locals said that the Ethiopian troops detained the
elders in unknown military prisons in Ethiopia and
asking queries in over there.
The detention of the Somali traditional elders
comes as more Somali elders who went there for
mediating rival clan militias of Somalia in the region
were recently released from a jail near Musthail town
in the Somali region in eastern Ethiopia. |
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