Posted on 01/21/2005 6:17:34 PM PST by Cornpone
The Italian government has condemned the destruction of an Italian colonial cemetery by militiamen in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. The office of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi described the action as barbarous and called for those responsible to be brought to justice.
Some 700 graves in the cemetery were destroyed and their human remains dumped elsewhere.
Reports say militias want to use the ground for a base.
Playing with remains
"To desecrate a place of silence and memory, sacred to all civilisations, represents a vile and particularly hateful act that cannot have any justification," Mr Berlusconi's office said.
His Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini has ordered Italy's special envoy and its head of mission in Somalia to express Italian outrage to the Somali government, which is based in Kenya.
The BBC's Mohammed Olad Hassan in the city says he saw human remains which had been dumped at a former air force base near Mogadishu airport, and said he witnessed children playing with human bones.
The militias refused to let him enter the cemetery.
Mogadishu was under Italian colonial control until World War II and many of the graves belong to Italian soldiers and expatriates.
Somalia has not had a functioning national government since 1991 and rival militias have divided it into a patchwork of fiefdoms.
A new Somali government has been named and is due to start relocating to Mogadishu from Kenya on 1 February.
Turd world.
A fit reply.
I think Italy should invade!!
I would imagine the "militia men" couldn't care less what the Italians think. Sounds like a barbarous place.
Agreed!
It is a barbarous place and you're right. They only care about what their Imams will bless them to do. Muhammad supposedly said there can be no Christians laid to rest on 'holy Islamic ground' so now they are free to loot the bodies of the long dead...about all that is left to loot there. And of course this continued anarchy is blessed by Allah.
Islam won't even allow the dead to rest in peace. It is not enough to merely torment the living.
What about the League of Nations?
What a wonderful place Somalia is.
Seemingly profound reaction to desecration of cematary grounds, I wonder what the reaction to the African genocides typically look like. There should be many to compare, right?
Gunmen under orders from Islamic clerics exhumed and discarded the remains of more than 500 people buried in an Italian cemetery in Mogadishu, residents said. The gunmen threw the remains into a garbage-dumping zone along the city's southern Indian Ocean shore, they said.... Witnesses reported that the men told them they had been ordered by a religious court to clear the site of non-Islamic elements and to make way for housing to be built on the grounds.
They are not playing Baseball!! >>>>>>>>>>>> Are they?
This is a good reason for America to bring home the remains of its fallen who are buried in countries whose futures are in doubt, France for starters.
This is a good reason for America to bring home the remains of its fallen who are buried in countries whose futures are in doubt, France for starters.
Islam is completing a motion from religion, to cult and now to joke.
There are too many CAIR types and their liars denying what is written the the Koran (or Quran) about violence the the blessing of lying to the non-believers.
(Even on Savage's show he was stupid enough to believe one of these "religion of peace" parsers and liars. The caller was trying to distiguis Moslem from Islam. ...and ed is not edward.)
Desecrating graves is a usual behavior of Islamic believers. The do it in the middle east, they do it in Israel, they did it in cyprus, and the will continue to do it.
just sick.
To think that these are the same guys getting some of that tsunami windfall money...
Mussolini suppressed the mafia, which came back after the war because they helped in the Allied invasion of Sicily.
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