1989 Report on Somali refugees details SNM attacking UN refugee camps, killings of civilians & POWs.

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"Seven interviewees (about 14%) of the 52 randomly selected northern​
Somalia interviewees and all of the five non-randomly selected interviewees
reported witnessing killings of unarmed civilian non-combatants which they
attributed to the SNM. All of the incidents were said to have occurred during the
May 27/August 31, 1988 period. Two of the 130 Issak interviewees provided eyewitness accounts of SNM
executions of 11 prisoners of war. One of these prisoners was said to have been
executed in the May 27/August 31, 1988 period; ten during the January/March
1989 period. The ten prisoners executed in the more recent case were
described as Ethiopian refugees who had received weapons from the Somali
Armed Forces in order to combat the SNM. According to this account, six told
the interviewee before they were killed that they had resided at the United
Nations refugee camp at Sabaad. This interviewee also claimed to have
routinely eyewitnessed execution of civilians belonging to clans allied with the Somali government by the SNM..."
http://cja.org/downloads/Why Somalis Flee.pdf
 
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