Talk:Battle of Mogadishu (March–April 2007)

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[edit] DON'T RESTORE WRONG LINKS

It's stupid to even me saying this, so obvious! --HanzoHattori 13:36, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Also, given that on "On April 1, it was reported that the death toll of the previous four days of heavy fighting in the capital is at least 849 killed civilians, 200 insurgents and 36 Ethiopian soldiers along with the one Ugandan soldier, for a total of 1,086 dead" in a week (which is ALSO unsourced) I find this highly unlikely they then killed "nearly" 800 rebels and some 300 civs in the next four weeks losing only 1 man (or even 1 Eth + 11 TFG, whatever). --HanzoHattori 13:40, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Human rights abuses and crimes

The opening paragraph for this section seems a bit misleading. The wording implies that the Ethiopian forces have tried to justify their actions as a response to a violation by the insurgents, but I don't see anywhere in the referenced article where the Ethiopian forces have made any such claim. The cited article is simply stating that two wrongs don't make a right, and uses a scenario from their list of described violations to illustrate the point. While the Ethiopian forces did bombard those areas, and most likely did do it in response to the insurgents deploying there, I haven't seen anything that says they are using that as a justifications. I'd suggest rewriting the paragraph:

All parties involved in the conflict have violated the laws of war. It should be noted, however, that a violation by one side does not justify a violation by the other. E.g. insurgent forces unlawfully deploying in densely populated neighborhoods would not justify Ethiopian forces bombarding those areas indiscriminately.

Does anyone disagree? Undisputedloser 23:45, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

then how do you want it rewritten? --TheFEARgod (Ч) 12:18, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Something similar to this:

All parties involved in the conflict have violated the laws of war. It should be noted, however, that a violation by one side does not justify a violation by the other. E.g. insurgent forces unlawfully deploying in densely populated neighborhoods would not justify Ethiopian forces bombarding those areas indiscriminately.

Alternatively, if someone can locate anything showing the Ethiopian forces did make such a statement, we could simply add that as a second reference in the paragraph. Undisputedloser 16:10, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

go ahead --TheFEARgod (Ч) 16:28, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:27, 5 December 2007 (UTC)