Hawiye Elders show concern over arbitrary arrest against their supporters by Ethiopian and Somali government forces
By Dahir Abdulle Alasow
Mogadishu ,Sunday, May. 20, 2007 Waagacusub.com
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Hawiye traditional elders show concern about a curfew imposed on the residents of Urawa residential area where most of the Hawiye clan supporters reside.
Ahmed Derie Ali, spokesman of Hawiye clan Speaking at a press conference yesterday in Mogadishu blamed government and Ethiopian forces for arbitrary arrests against Hawiye clan people,
"We could accept our people being subjugated for things that they are not responsible' he said.
Mr. Derie denounced that his supported were behind those explosions that came familiar in the capital after Somali insurgents were ousted by the Somali government forces backed by the Ethiopians.
The spokesman told to the reporters that president you did not reply a written statement the elders sent to him.
"We could not know why the president did not send us his reply" said Ahmed Derie.
On the other hand , Mogadishu 's Mayor Mohamed Omer Habeb 'Mohamed Dhere' said on Sunday that he has escaped an assassination attempt after an attack on his convoy in North Mogadishu .
A bomb exploded nearly 7;00 local time in North Mogadishu where
Mohamed dhere's convoy was passing and two civilians were confirmed to have been killed and two others wounded in the blast which caused by a roadside bomb.
Mohamed Dhere speaking in a news conference held this morning in the capital said that blast was a terrorist attack carried out by the remnants of the ousted Islamists.
" The attacker who was on a tree near the site of the attack has been shot dead on the spot by The Mayor's guard as confirmed by the Mogadishu Mayor himself.
The Mayor said that government forces foiled several bomb attacks in nine places in the capital.
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