Somalia War Crimes Investigation Needed, Human Right Watch Says

An international commission should be set up to assess whether Somali government soldiers, African Union peacekeepers and insurgents of al-Shabaab have committed war crimes in the capital, Mogadishu, New York-based Human Rights Watch said.

“The world has for too long ignored the appalling cost to civilians of the fighting in Mogadishu,” Rona Peligal, deputy Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement today. “An international commission of inquiry is urgently needed to investigate war crimes committed in Somalia by all sides.”