Somalia: January 18, 2005

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In Mogadishu, young gunmen dug up the graves of colonial era Italians and dumped the remains outside the Christian cemetery. The vandals said they were acting on the orders of one of the Islamic Courts, which had declared a Christian cemetery unwelcome in Islamic Somalia.

 

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