Somali security officers assess the scene of an explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia, February 13 2021. Picture: REUTERS/FEISAL OMAR
“Many forces heavily attacked us, I am now on my chest in an alley. This is a massacre,” protester Farah Omar said. He said Turkish-trained special forces troops known as Gorgor were among those attacking demonstrators. “The military is dissolving and many troops seemingly reverting to clan loyalties,” said Col Ahmed Abdullahi Sheikh, who served for three years until 2019 as the commander of Somalia’s elite US-trained Danab unit.
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