SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES GOVERNMENT SOLDIER

at a Mogadishu Military Court in Somalia, judge Hassan Mohammed Hussein sentenced soldier Abdi Abdullahi Dhuhul to death for murdering soldier Abdirizaq Hassan Ali in Mogadishu on April 29, 2011. In the presence of government officials, a firing squad was convened and Abdi was executed immediately in Mogadishu's Hamar-jajab square in front of local residents.
The judge warned the government soldiers against looting or robbing the properties of civilians during battles against militant group al Shabaab. And he called for Somali army to slay any soldier committed such actions like that at the spot.