Somali al-Shabab Islamists have brought greater stability to parts of Somalia, but at a huge cost to the local population, Human Rights Watch says.A report by the US-based group details killings, repression and harsh Sharia law punishments, including amputations. "The price that people had to pay for that relative degree of security was really just incredible," the report's author Chris Albin-Lackey told the BBC."People from many parts of southern Somalia did give the al-Shabab authorities credit for bringing about a kind of stability that many areas had not known for many years," Mr Albin-Lackey told the BBC's Network Africa programme.The Islamists have wiped out "banditry and freelance militias that have plagued people" but that stability has often come at the price of justice, he said....
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