Who do I contact of the massacres happening in Somalia

[annm4peace]

For the past year our CIA operatives have been bombing Mogadisu, out tax dollars have helped to support a murdering dictator in Ethopia who has sent in warlords and other gang leaders into the Somali capital to rape and butcher Somali's

For the past 4 months I have called my Reps in Minnesota asking them to help write a bill or some thing to stop giving money to the Ethopian dictator and to stop the CIA from bombing the city.

I have gotten no where. We have over 40,000 Somalis in MN, and they are scared. Those who spoke out a year ago, where threaten here in MN, and their family members were threatened or killed in Somalia.

No one seems to be able to take action. Please post of you know if your Representative can help or has a bill to address the Genocide happening in Somalia



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Somalia needs more help: U.N. aid chief By Guled Mohamed
Mon Dec 3, 6:00 PM ET



The United Nations' top aid official called on Monday for more aid for Somalia where the world body says one million people have been forced to flee their homes in Africa's worst humanitarian crisis.

John Holmes, on a visit to the Horn of Africa country, later met with new Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein in the central city of Baidoa after visiting several camps of war-displaced residents of the capital Mogadishu.

They agreed to enhance cooperation in order to ease what has become a major humanitarian disaster in Somalia as a result of a bloody insurgency against Hussein's fledgling government and their Ethiopian allies.

Fighting in Mogadishu on Monday killed five people and three government soldiers were slain in a dispute with local militias over pay in Jowhar, 90 km (56 miles) north, witnesses said.

Efforts to supply food to the needy are impeded by rampant piracy and closed borders. Almost 6,000 civilians have been killed in fighting this year.

"We are doing our best to help them both in humanitarian terms and also to try and press for a political solution which can really bring lasting prosperity and stability," Holmes said.

Hussein said his government is committed to improving the situation and bringing back law and order in a country deprived of central rule since the 1991 ouster of a dictator.

"We recognize the current crisis and we are ready to address it," Hussein said. "Reconciliation, security and provision of humanitarian aid are very much interlinked so we recognize this and definitely we will try to address them."

The interim government, struggling to assert its authority in a nation mired in lawlessness since 1991, promised in April to deliver more aid after Holmes complained of restrictions.

The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday it started providing daily meals to at least 21,000 people in Mogadishu last month, and wants to target 50,000.

"RAMPANT ABUSES"

Human Rights Watch urged the U.N. Security Council on Monday to press Ethiopia and Somalia to stop "grave human rights abuses that are fuelling the worsening humanitarian crisis" in Somalia and in Ethiopia's ethnically Somali Ogaden region.

The group said clashes intensified in November and were marked by increasing brutality towards civilians, including "summary executions and enforced disappearances of individuals by Ethiopian forces." Addis Ababa denies such allegations.

"Key governments are ignoring the rampant human rights abuses in Somalia at their own peril," HRW said.

A contingent of African Union soldiers has failed to stem the violence from a government-led offensive to hunt insurgents behind almost-daily roadside bombings and grenade attacks.

U.N. Security Council members said last month it was vital to keep planning for a possible U.N. peacekeeping mission in Somalia, despite Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's view that such a force is unrealistic at this time.

"What we can do now is plan for a possible mission to Somalia and help the African Union forces in Somalia ... but at the moment it is very hard to even send a fact-finding mission to Mogadishu," Holmes said.

His visit comes a day after Prime Minister Hussein named an "all-inclusive cabinet" and called for talks with Eritrea-based opponents to end an Islamist-led insurgency.

Hussein's appointment last month was seen by many as an opportunity for reconciliation in Somalia, plunged into chaos since 1991.

"Security is the top of our priorities. We said that reconciliation is also one of our top priorities," he said. His government would take a new approach to reconciliation, he said.

"Some of the opposition are blaming the government because of lack of activity. We will try to be active. We are open whether it regards power-sharing or lack of activity. Our main aim is to see our people assisted."

(Writing by Katie Nguyen; Editing by Bryson Hull)



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5,960 Civilians Killed in Mogadishu in 2007
The Associated Press

Sunday 02 December 2007

Mogadishu, Somalia - Violence in Somalia's war-ravaged capital has killed 5,960 civilians this year, the country's oldest human rights group said Sunday.

Sudan Ali Ahmed, chairman of Elman Human Rights, also said 7,980 people were wounded and more than 700,000 displaced from their homes as the country's government has struggled to contain a bloody Islamic insurgency.

The group, which releases monthly human rights reports, has been tallying the death toll in secret after the mayor of Mogadishu banned the organization in October.

"Our staff members are collecting figures and facts about human rights abuses by visiting residential areas and medical centers," Ahmed told The Associated Press by telephone Sunday from an undisclosed location.

Mogadishu Mayor Mohamed Dheere ordered the independent Somali group to close its offices on Oct. 8. Ahmed said his group was accused of spreading "exaggerated and false information" about the country's fragile government.

Dheere could not immediately be reached for comment as his cell phone want unanswered.

Elman Human Rights has 116 staff across the country. The group has tracked the killings of civilians during Mogadishu's near-daily violence this year and has also reported on violations in recent years.

Several human rights groups have accused the government, insurgents and Ethiopian troops of committing abuses.

Ethiopia came to the aid of Somalia's government in December to rout an Islamic group called the Council of Islamic Courts. The Islamic group's fighters then threatened an Iraq-style insurgency, and thousands of Mogadishu residents have been killed this year in the capital's seemingly endless gun battles, grenade and mortar attacks.

Somalia has not had a functioning government since a group of warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, then turned their heavily armed supporters on each other.