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4 dead Woyannes dragged through Mogadishu streets (AP)

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These coward Woyanne mercenaries abandon their comrades and run. They are brave only when it comes to shooting down unarmed Ethiopian civilians.

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By Mohamed Sheikh Nor (ASSOCIATED PRESS), MOGADISHU, Somalia – Islamic insurgents clashed with Ethiopian Woyanne troops in Somalia’s capital Saturday in battles that killed 12 people and wounded 10 others, witnesses said.

Jubilant supporters of the insurgents dragged the bodies of four dead Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers through the streets, said one witness, Mudey Ga’al.

Eight civilians were also killed. People used wheelbarrows to cart off the handful of wounded – including two children – and the bodies of the dead, said Mohamed Jala, a resident of the area.

Sacido Sheikh said three of his stepbrothers were among those killed. A mortar shell hit their house in a different part of the neighborhood.

Dr. Dahir Dhere at Medina hospital said they admitted four wounded civilians, including two infant boys.

The clashes began early in the morning when Ethiopian troops allied to the shaky transitional government entered the Suqa-hola neighborhood in the northeast of the city, said another resident, Rage Ahmed.

Thousands of Somalis have died in fighting between Islamic insurgents and Ethiopian troops supporting the Somali government. The war is complicated by clan loyalties, corruption and the involvement of archenemies Eritrea and Ethiopia. Torn between heavily armed squabbling warlords, Somalia has not had a functioning government in 17 years.
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VOA News — Witnesses in Somalia say fighting between Islamist insurgents and Ethiopian Woyanne troops has killed at least eight people in the capital, Mogadishu.

Residents say Ethiopian Woyanne troops allied to Somalia’s transitional government entered a neighborhood in the north of the city early Saturday, sparking fierce clashes with insurgents. They say at least two Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers are among those killed.

Witnesses say at least five civilians were killed when a stray artillery shell struck a small restaurant in the city’s Fagah neighborhood.

38 thoughts on “4 dead Woyannes dragged through Mogadishu streets (AP)”

  1. tears roll on my cheek while I read this horrible news. To my understading no body but Ertirean and thier merceneries will be happy with this news. Mr. Elias you have to know that hundered thousends of innocent Ethiopian youths are joined the militery because of economic reason. The deteriorating economic situation forces anyone to grab any opportunity available including the militery sectore. So, Elias, please do’t kill them again. We have to prey for their soul to rest in piece.

  3. SOMALIANS GOOD JOB GOOD JOB , ETHIOPIAN 4 SOLDIERS(LEMAN NEWOE YEMTIWAGAWO LAGERHI NEWOE WEYIS LE WOYANNE?) SOMALIANS DRAGGED ETHIOPIANS 4 SOLDDIERS IT ISN’T AMAZING (LAKATARI WOYANNE SOLDIERS THAT IS GOOD PUNISHMENT CAUSE YOU OPENS YOURS FIERS BY INNOCENT&unarmed CIVILIANS 1997E.C.ETHIOPIANS; WE DON’T CARE ETHIOPIAN FOR TERRORISM(WOYANNE AKATARI WOTTADER ENDE WOESHA(DOG) RESHA BIGOTETIE NOT 4 SOLDIERS IT WILL BE 1000 WHO CARES OR CARGED FOR YOU***TILEH ATITEFAM TAMAGEN WOTTADEROCH!!!SOMALIANS LAND HEROES GOOD JOB GOOD JOB THAT IS YOUR COUNTRY***NOTICE?? NOTICE?? NOTICE?? MOTTE LE WOYANNE WE LOVE ETHIOPIA

  5. please donot say ethiopia’s troops” ethiopia did not send any troops in somalia. ONLY AND IT’S DOGS WILL BE RESPONSIBLE THE WHOLE CRIME AGAINST INNOCENT SOMLIANS IN THEIR OWN VILLAGES. ETHIOPIA HAS NOTHING TODO WITH THIS PROXY WAR BETWEEN SOMALIA’S PATROOTIC FRONT AND USA’s interst defender TPLF. TPLF HAS NEVER AND WILL NEVER REPRESENT ETHIOPIA AND ETHIOPIANS EXCEPT SOME ADWA’S THE SO CALLED “ELITES”. THESE GROUP WILL TAKE THE WHOLE CRIMES WHICH IS COMMITTED IN SOMALIA AND WILL COMITTE IN THE FUTURE. SOONER OR LATER THE CASE WILLBE ON THE TABLE OF” UN’s ” table to sort out the criminals like MULOSBICH AND CHARLSE TALOR OF LEBERIA. UNTILL THAT MUMEMNTUM GOD BLESS ETHIOPIA AND SOMALIA. AMEN

  7. Our heart is bleeding, and out head is aching for those poor Ethiopians who are dying and left in the streets of somalia. Death to woyanaetplf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    These dead ones are the childreen of the poor mothers, fathers who have been forced to fight for the existence of the crimefamily;when they died and dragged in the streets of moquadishu, we all Ethiopians had died inside and angered by the crimefamily that sent our hildren to die in somalia.

    For everysingle ethiopian dead in somalia, members of the crimefamily will pay unimaginable price. Amen

  8. The so Called Ethiopian Soliders, killing innocent Somalian Children in there own home is that morally acceptable?? Is it not better to kill those who send you to kill children? and die
    which one is morally acceptable? I know you do not have a means or a chance to read this but I am asking those who support your immoral war. Those support the war do you think invading another country and killing children make you a war hero? don’t you think it is better to die than killing children? so I say those who died are better than those who are still killing and burning children in their own home. If I have a gun I will use it on those killing children on the street of Addis Ababa and Somalia.

  9. In responce to Tatu says:

    That is what you savage tigrees dream and know, to do but unfortunately you and your brothers are drugged in the street of somalia. Is that not funny.

    death for the savage and primitive woyanes and their supporters. Long live Elias and his familly

  10. This is good news in a row. Hopefully the killing of the barbarians will continue. Agazee killers who are specialists in maiming innocent civilians, children and elderly are now confronted with the duty of facing gallant fighters of Somalia. Fortunately the Somalians who know how to handle colonizers and occupiers will prevail again indisputably. That is good news for Ethiopians who have been continuously victimized by looter gang troop of TPLF- the death of each Woyane is a harbinger of peace in the horn!

    ICU should decree to feed the corpse of the mercenaries to Hyenas and vultures-these barbarians should never spoil the soil of Somalia. The coward Agazee is paying the price- the price is paid halleluiah – amazing death of the killer barbaric agazee! Ahahahahahahaha. I am filled with joy and exhilaration. The blood of my brothers who flew in Oromia and many other places is being avenged by the ICU!

  11. Let us have a logical reasoning.

    Woyanie is a cancer (enemy) of Ethiopia.

    Any individual serving woyanie in any capacity including as a military personell, security officer, intelegence (rat), under cover, even public office holders like kebele chairman are a woyanie.

    Therefore, all these personells are enemy of Ethiopia.

    Remember your logic 102.

    As such, if we are going to have a real liberation army, we are going to fight this Woyanie army, meaning our enemy: Agazi. Death to the Agazis

  12. Elias,

    I know your intent and message and any cool-headed reader will not take extreme position against your comment. As far as I am concerned, there is no happiness in watching dead bodies dragged on the street be it Woyane soldier or alien species from other universe. But why on earth an army that pretends to be invincible run away leaving behind its follen comrades? One can only speculate how this toothless lions shake the foundation of the horn. There must be a better conspiracy theory to explain what helps Woyane to trample on the democratic rights of East Africa, specifically Ethiopia.

  13. When these very Woyannes soldiers were massacring the innocent Ethiopians on the streets of Addis-Ababa,nobody called them poor Ethiopian boys.Why these minions are attacking Elies for telling it like it is now?

  17. “Abebe lela mestawkiaw lela.”. I don’t understand why you guys are tripping over Elias. Meles Zenawi is the one to take over a mercenary job he can’t accomplish. Meles is responsible for every dying soldier in somalia. Elias just delivers the news as it is. While I disagreed with him at times on how he presents the news, his overall promotion of the defeat of woyanes in Somalia is comendable. Woyanes should be humiliated and defeated in Somalia, which they are. They tarnished our history by invading another country, something we had never done in our history. Because they managed to slaughter unarmed society in Ethiopia by shooting mothers and children everyday, they indulged in this adventure of somalia invasion. Bad idea. Now they are being made to work hard for every life they are destroying in Somalia. Somalia is no Addis Ababa. The people are armed there. They can’t just stand and watch you kill their children, or rape their women. In a strange twist of fate, may be Somalia is God’s response to Addis massacre.

  18. No one wishes for dead Woyane soldiers to be dragged in the streets of Mogadisho, I hope the Somali Opposition leadership will ask the people not to drag the dead bodies in the streets. What I don’t understand is those who consider this act as the only barbaric act going on in Somalia, these are poor people who have lost their family members at the hands of Woyanne soldiers, their property looted, their houses bombed mercilessly and above all their country invaded by puppets of an imperial super power. Now where are these people who only condemn the dragging of four Woyanne soldiers and not say a peep about the daily killing, maiming, raping and destruction of property?
    It is much easier to criticize from the comfort of home and look like a cyber humanist when you don’t have to face the brutality of Woyanne occupation, wake up and work for the destruction of the puppet Woyanne regime like the gallant Somali people are doing by paying their dear lives.

  19. Stop blaming all your problems to Isaias and Eritrea. As far as I am concerned Isaias is the best thing Ethiopia has going for it.
    Anyway, to come back to the current issue, you see that is the reason why the Ethiopians could not the take the political mantle that has been snatched by the Weyane thugs. You people are too emotional to even think rationally and to know what is good for your country. It does not do anybody any good to state that the dead soldiers are Ethiopian. They are. No body is denyining that. But they are in Somalia killing people like you and me. Whether they were forced into conscription or voluntered to kill Somali innocent people is immaterial. The fact that they are there and doing what they are doing is bad for the victims and it should be bad for you and me. So, anytime some of these soldiers are made incapable of committimg the heineous crime they have been doing is GOOD NEWS to the Somalis and it should also be good for human beings and that includes you and me.

  20. እድሜ ለወያኔ ገና ብዙ ጠላቶችን እንድናፈራ
    ያደርገናል!የሚያሳዝነኝ ያቺ አገር አሁንም ሰላም ማጣቷ ነው::

  21. Excellent explanation, Tatu you said it clearly.

    Tatu says

    Elias we will dragg your dead body if you return to ethiopia.You wil never,never see the country.you are Isayas mercenary

  24. Do you think Issayas Afewerki should have been the leader of ethiopia and eritrea after he liberatied eritrea and ethiopia from fascist dictator mengistu hailemariam?.

  26. I think the article is mixing Ethiopian troops with Agazis. Members of Ethiopian army are constituted from children of poor Ethiopians. I don’t see how any Ethiopian being happy when bodies of poor Ethiopian children being drugged in this savage way. Yes, Agazi is only good in killing children and old Ethiopians in cities of Ethiopia. But these kids in Moqadisho are there to help their family by the salary they make from the government.

    Yes, we oppose the war, yes the war is wrong, yes, Woyanne shouldn’t interfere in Somalia’s internal affairs. However, I don’t see the drum beating is the right way when our brothers’ bodies are drugged in Moqadisho. Again, we shouldn’t in their (Somalians) internal affairs. By the same taken, the rhetoric’s such as “Greater Somalia including Ogaden, Jihad on Ethiopia” … etc shouldn’t be taken lightly either.

    I am not here to judge the writer’s/editor’s intent, but my suggestion is that we should see the big picture.

    Thanks,
    Melkam Hosena to my Christian brothers/sisters

  27. Readers like Tatu are mentaly ill or poor to connect pieces.
    Do you think that Woyanee will be in power to privent Elias and like minded individuals from returning home?Poor Tatu?

    I asure you one thing, unless your are blind and obsessed with vihemont woyanee politics you can read from this web site vistors the general feeling of Ethiopia people. You and your government Woyane is the most hated people in this planet.
    We will chase you out of that country for ever or you will go to your cave to start it all again!hahaha if you can do that.
    What a shame is that? why some ethnic Tigre Woyanees supporters think so odd? is their any thing wrong with their mind? Why they can’t see the future?
    How they can live with the rest of fellow Ethniopian when this crippling government gonne?

  28. Elias Kifle do you know how many people are offended and coming aganist you because of this kind of attack? Ethiopia has close to 200,000 soldiers and add their families friends & siblinngs estimated 5million or so ? so I wonder how you going to get away with this? I doubt you might end up living in a painful situation that always keeps you teriffied whenever you see some body on the street. This would cause a psychological crisis to you and guess what your ultimatum would be…..God be with you!

  29. ELIAS,
    You should know that if you come again to Ethiopia you would be the one who is going to be hanging at MESKEL ADEBABAY for all crimes you are committing now using your worthless ER. Currently most Ethiopian knows you for whom you stand for.
    You are calling GOOD NEWS for the death and humiliation of poor innocent soldiers. What a sham!!!!!!
    Even you don’t have a single humanity and fear of GOD when you post the news on your rubbish website.

    But wait your time. It will not far even in America that you are proud of living there.

    I never ever see an Ethiopian who is calling death of his country men as good news what ever political differences they have.
    As our fathers say “MENOR BIZU YASAYAL”
    Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  30. Hanny you are right

    Dear Hanny, I have read your comment and totally support it.

    As you say it not only wrong to label death and humiliation of Ethiopians as good news what ever political differences we have. At least they are our country men.
    So, I believe that Elias is missing his objectives and targets when it comes to the strategies he used to fulfill his aims.
    By doing so he is increasing the number of his enemies which I believe is not helping his for his future objectives.
    What ever regime change happen in Ethiopia, the country might not be safe to Elias as he is intentionally or not engaging himself in very sensitive issues unwisely.

    For example if you laughing and enjoying by my brother’s death what ever he is, I would not be in comfortable and try to revenge you.

    So, please let us avoid our selves from such sensitive things and focus on other important issues like opposing policies of government and exposing its entire wrong doings than trying to make fun of on dead people
    Thanks

  31. Yes Fana that is right!!
    Let us be cautions and avoid sensitive issues.
    We are all brothers and sisters what ever and when ever we live
    Regards,
    May God Save Ethiopia!

  34. Wether it is 4 soldiers or 81 civilians the sole responsibilities relies in the following people, 1- Meles, 2- Aseb Mesfin, 3- Seyoum Mesfin, 4- Bereket Simon; we can blame Dr. also but that’s beyond the reach of the Ethiopian people. May god bring peace and prosperity to the people of the horn and particularly the Somalians!

  35. borenticha I understand and share with some of your concernyour concern but you missing the whole point
    serving the pig(weyane,whether for economic or any other insentive is grave mistake and as such they bear the consequence.
    Weyane is a junta not a governemt
    Weyane does not follow any rule
    Let me ask you what about if Weyane thugs asked them to shoot Ethiopian civilians in Addis.Iam sure they would.Because they did before.Do you remember that?I do not if you have selective amnesia.
    Weyane is worst that the nazi Germany as such they have to exterminted from the face of the earth.

  36. just four woyannes? hahaha are you kidding me? watch the news next view days and you wil see more and more woyannes merceneries draged the streets of mogadishu…wlcm to mogadishu (rpg hotel) where you can check in but never check out…. and the masters of the streets are waiting…. woyannes all you know is to kill civilians in adis…bileave me i saw more the 52 lie on the streets of mogadishu 21/04/2008 time between 10 am until 21…..all they know to kill civilians but if woyanne kill one somali 4 woyannes wil die…. ethiopians can do the same in mogadishu somalia…long live ethiopiam ppl and somalian ppl

  38. Small minority of 2 million Tigries, are slaughtering & suppressing 20 million Amaras, 30 million Oromos, millions of Ogadins & Somalis in Ethiopia. While I understand people are fighting to get rid of TPLF, there has to be a better way to explain, why millions of Ethiopians fall victims to such small minority of Tigray marauding scavengers.
    Search youtube for Ethiopia – Meles Zenawi: Africa’s Worst Dictorial Tyrant… ETHIOPIANS OROMOS SOMALI OGADEN AND THE OTHERS FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT AND FREEDOM

    LONG LIVE SOMALIA AND ETHIOPIA

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