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Anti Rally Foreign Forces Fumes in Baidoa

Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
NEWS
September 15, 2006
Posted to the web September 15, 2006

By Hassan Kalkata
Mogadishu
A mass demonstration against foreign troops deployment in Bay region have taken
place in Baidoa, the provincial capital of Bay region , the base of the weak
transitional federal government on Friday.
Hundreds of people took the streets of Baidoa after Friday prayer in protest of
the decision by the African Union on sending African peace keeping troops to
Somalia,
The demonstrators were chanting anti foreign forces deployment in Baidoa.
They were also shouting Allah is great, no foreign troops on our soil,
Todays rally said to be staged by pro-Islamists clerics in Baidoa town.
The police in Baidoa city have fired live ammunition in the air to disperse the
demonstrators. The police and chased the marchers arresting at least six of
them.
The police tightened the security to prevent further violence and put the
situation under control.
The newly installed local authority in the city ordered the police to capture
and arrest any one with white turban those believed to part of the
demonstrators.
The protestors, mostly from local clerics were very angry of the plan endorsed
by the African union (AU)
The rally was organized the religious people in Baidoa, the fourth largest city
in Somalia.


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