The Christian Science Monitor reports that:
up to 600,000 refugees from the Daro[o]d clan have fled to southern
coastal town of Kismayo.... In Mogadishu, there have been 'repeated
reports of Hawiye (the dominant clan in the capital) looting homes
and unconfirmed reports of summary executions of Daro[o]d (by
Hawiye),' says a Western diplomat (5 Apr. 1991, 1).
An Agence France Presse broadcast monitored by the British
Broadcasting Corporation quotes a representative of the Salvation
Democratic Front as accusing "the Hawiye-dominated U.S.C. of
massacring members of Maj-Gen Siyad Barreh's Daro[o]d people in
Mogadishu, allegations which Mr. Abdullahi [Somali Provisional
Government's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs] dismissed as
completely untrue,'" (23 Mar. 1991, p. 1).
While not directly referring to the treatment of the Darood Tribe
in Mogadishu, the following information may be noteworthy.
Reporting on the civil war in Somalia, Agence France Presse refers
to unspecified diplomats' reports on the "continued clan-based
fighting in southern Somalia in recent weeks, pitting the Daro[o]d
clans against the Hawiye who formed the provisional government" (15
July 1991).
Reuters reports the continued fighting between the "Darood
sub-clans" and the Hawiye-dominated U.S.C. "mainly in the area
between Kismayo and the capital" since January 1991 (25 Apr. 1991).
According to Reuters, "fighters of the United Somali Congress
(USC), the Hawiye clan-based faction that controls the capital, had
pushed the Daroods back to Shalanbod, 90 km (55 miles) from the
capital" (11 Apr. 1991).
The Xinhua General Overseas News Service reports the agreement of
the representatives of two rival clans, the Darood and the Hawiye,
on a ceasefire covering only "the battlefield south of the capital
city of Mogadishu, where Daro[o]d fighters have advanced to Afgoi
which is 40 kilometres from the capital city and is under the
control of [the] Hawiye-dominated united Somali Congress. No date
has been set for a conference between the two factions to formalize
the ceasefire" (7 Apr. 1991).
Further information on the subject is currently unavailable to the
IRBDC.
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BBC Summary of World Broadcasts. 23
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Attachments
Agence France Presse. 15 July 1991. "Moi
Orders 'Rich Somalis' Out of Kenya." 15 July 1991.
BBC Summary of World Broadcasts. 23
March 1991. "Somalia in Brief; Minister Wants 'Peaceful' Settlement
with Siyad; Fighters Advance on Mogadishu," pp. 1, 2. (NEXIS)
The Christian Science Monitor. 5 April
1991. "Rebel Clashes Forestall Peace in Newly Liberated Somalia,"
pp. 1, 2. (NEXIS)
Reuters. 25 April 1991. Somali Groups
Says Italian Relief Ship Hijacked by Refugees." (NEXIS)
Reuters. 11 April 1991. "Fighting
Between Somali Clans Scotching Hopes of Ceasefire." (NEXIS)
The Xinhua General Overseas News
Service. 7 April 1991. "Warring Somali Factions Agree to Temporary
Ceasefire.