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Desecrating
Graves
is an Unislamic Act
(SHHRF 0028/2005, Wednesday, 05 January 2005)
(English version)
On 19
January 2005, it has been reported that a Somalia militia based in
Mogadishu
has desecrated an Italian colonial cemetery. It has also been claimed that
the militia digged the graves and dumped the human remains near
Mogadishu’s
ruined international airport. Unfortunately, some of these remains even
ended as toys to children.
We
strongly denounce vandalizing burial places as they are both inhuman as
well
as unislamic. Desecrating any place of memory cannot have any justification
at all. Islam pays respect to the dead. Vandalizing graveyards is simply a
lunatic behaviour.
It was
shocking to learn that this militia belongs to some of Mogadishu Islamic
Courts.
It is an irony that these militias belonged to the Islamic Courts as they
had shown good service towards the people of Mogadishu.
The
Islamic Courts were set to bring law and order in the capital’s unruly
streets, and because of this they earned the trust of people traumatized by
years of violence. In other words, they have filled the security vacuum
created by the collapse of the state in early 1990s.
Every
Somalis has responsibility to denounce and help in bringing to their senses
those responsible for the shocking and appalling act of graveyard vandalism.
Sultan
Hurre Human Rights Focus
www.suldanhurre.org
webmaster@suldanhurre.org
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