The Somali military has executed six al-Shabab militants without a trial, according to officials and rights activists. The militants were executed Sunday by firing squad in the town of Bardhere, about 300 kilometers southwest of Mogadishu. Turba said the military was following orders from the Somali defense minister. "Recently, when the militants killed two Somali senior military generals in a blast, our superior military commanders and the defense minister said al-Shabab militants should be killed (on) sight," said Turba. In 2017, Somali military courts and al-Shabab executed about a dozen people, all of them killed in public settings before crowds of between 30 and 300 people.

Source: Ethiopian News January 01, 2019 20:26 UTC