By David Ochami
(Africa Press International) — Eleven Muslims deported to Somalia from Kenya after the collapse of Somalia’s Islamic Courts Union (ICU) have been released from Ethiopian Woyanne jails and taken to Somalia.
It is not known why they were freed without charges.
But 19 Kenyans deported and detained with this group remain in Ethiopian Woyanne jails in Addis Ababa and Awasso cities.
An unnamed Kenyan among those released has not returned to the country for fear of persecution.
About 60 Kenyans and foreigners were deported to Somalia on January 27 after crossing from the war torn country in the wake of the collapse of the ICU spurred by an Ethiopian a Woyanne invasion.
Kenyan and Ethiopian Woyanne authorities accused them of links with the ICU and Al Qaeida. Most were taken to Ethiopia and some to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Reports in Somalia’s Dobley town and Daadab on Kenya’s border with Somalia indicate one of the deportees was Kenyan without identification papers. Relatives declined to divulge further details.
In Nairobi the Muslim Human Rights Forum that has fought against US led renditions said its officials have met some of the released former deportees on the Somalia border.
Al Amin Kimathi, head of the forum, said the eleven were set free from Awasso and taken to Baidoa in South Central Somalia in February, apparently after being cleared by a military tribunal.
The official said one Kenyan has become deaf because of inhuman detention conditions. Independent accounts from former deportees show two detainees are now paralysed and one has lost an eye.
“It shows the extent of torture and atrocities in these jails,” said Al Amin.
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FORUM | 2 Comments
Tortures, all dehumanizing actions taken any person in custody, is itself a form of Terrorism all man kind alike must denounce.
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May 3rd, 2008 at 9:16 PM
Democracy is not stratedgy to;
Hunt lives and butcher them.
Surround them to mass starvation.
Indiscriminately butcher women and children in masses.
Kidnap dissidants from remote refugee camps to slit his/her throats.
Extort money from poor citizens under all falacies of “we’re your government, then we own you and your life, your land as well”.
Loot state banks and properties to own accounts under assumed family names.
Invade all neighbors and kill and gut cities its art facts, millions of lives displacing millions to rape, hunger, diseases, unimaginable human sufferrings.
The regime in Ethiopia have used the above tacts, under the umbarella it was given within pseudo-democracy it waves around.
How would the so called governments ever have audiacity to speak against Hitler? They’ve already killed, more than Hitler, in extremely grusome fashions.
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May 6th, 2008 at 9:35 AM