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Hargeysa, Somaliland, May 23,
2009 (SL Times) – Rains that fell in Hargeysa’s Boqol Jire, Malko
Durdure neighborhood on May 15th revealed the bones and skulls of 10
humans. The victims included both civilians and military personnel who
were apparently killed by Siyad Barre’s military regime in 1988 when SNM
guerrillas entered Somaliland’s cities from their bases across the
border in Ethiopia. The military dictatorship ruling the country at the
time massacred the local population after accusing them of supporting
the guerrillas.
This is not the first time that mass graves were discovered in
Somaliland. Heavy rains in that same Malko Durdure general area swept
into the open human bones and skulls in 2005 and several other times.
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