The murderous Al-Shabaab hotel siege in Mogadishu has been blamed on the government, according to the prime minister of Somalia, who called the terrorist group “children of hell.”
Additionally, Hamza Abdi Barre urged Somalians to band together to battle the Al Qaeda-affiliated group that has been conducting a violent insurgency in the country for more than 15 years.
the weekend attack by the extremist Islamist Shebab on a hotel in Mogadishu, which resulted in at least 21 fatalities and 117 injuries.
“No one in the government will be exempt from their duties; there will be responsibility. Anyone who disregarded the duty entrusted to him will be held accountable “Hamza Abdi Barre made the statement on Sunday night after visiting the attack victims at a hospital in Mogadishu.
“There is just one option available here: either we live or we let the shebabs, or children of hell, live. We can’t cohabitate, “said he.
The fight against them has already begun in many locations, he continued, therefore it will never happen if their goal is to weaken the resolve of the Somali people who have chosen to oppose them.
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In order to ensure that what happened there won’t happen again, he urged “the Somali people to unite to fight the enemy and (…) to free themselves.”
The Hayat Hotel in the Somali capital of Mogadishu was the target of a significant attack on Friday night by the radical Islamist Shebab, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group that has been fighting the government of Somalia for 15 years. The attack was stopped on Saturday night by security forces.
Security forces saved “106 persons, including women and children,” said to Police Commissioner Abdi Hassan Mohamed Hijar.
Rescuers were still searching among the debris on Sunday for potential survivors, while experts were trying to locate any explosives.
Since President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud’s election in mid-May and the installation of the administration in early August, the attack has been the bloodiest.
The Shebab were expelled from the country’s major cities, including Mogadishu in 2011, but they are still well-established in sizable rural areas and continue to pose a serious threat to the government.
Muktar Robow, alias Abu Mansour, a founder and former commander of the shebab movement who is now the minister of religious affairs, denounced the attack and urged the fighters to disband the shebab.
“I implores them to turn to God. As long as a person is alive, they have the chance to atone for their transgressions “explained he.
“I know a lot of the people who are sending you to do this; several of them have kids enrolled at Mogadishu University and wouldn’t assign them to this labor. Therefore, I urge you to exercise caution, confess, leave them, and return to your community since there are still opportunities “He went on.
He continued, “Society should know that it is in its interest to come together to combat them.
As government officials gathered there on Friday night for the Muslim day of rest, the Shebab assaulted the Hayat Hotel, setting off bombs and shooting weapons.
