Benadir-Watch  (Southern Somalia)                                    Email: webmaster@benadir-watch.com                   

• About Benadir-Watch
   
• The Benadiri Question in Southern Somalia
   
• Plunders of the Somali Reconciliation Conference in Kenya - Read the historic Benadir-Watch letters to IGAD
   
• The dismembering of Somalia in chronological order
   
• Massacre of Somali refugees crossing the Red Sea - vestiges of 19th century slave trade in the region
   
• Cases on crimes against humanity
   
• The oil question in Somalia

• History of the Benadir                  (in preparation)

Massacre of Somali refugees
crossing the Red Sea from Puntland to Yemen
Vestiges of 19th century slave trade

February 2006 - Massacre of Somali refugees immigrating from the  Horn to Yemen.  When will the international community bring justice to these outlaws who find protection and impunity in the clan-based city states in Somalia?  May these horrible phtographs generate uproar in the conscience of mankind?

Massacre of Somali refugees continues in the Horn - at least, nine dead bodies wash up the beach in north eastern Somalia, residents say, June 19, 2006

Tragic Cargo - Part One, June 14, 2006
Tragic Cargo - Part Two, June 14, 2006
Testimonies from Somalia,  June 14, 2006
Testimonies from Ethiopians, Jun 14,,2006
Interview w/Bossasso Mayor, Jun14,2006

Interview with the coordinator of Somali Reunification W. U. IRIN,  June 14, 2006

Ethiopian exodus, IRIN, June 14, 2006

UN appeals to int'l community to stop people trafficking in Somalia, May 30, 2006

Puntland: The trade in human misery the racket, Hamilton Spectator, May 27, 2006,

Somalis brave a sea of perils for $50  a month, New York Times, May 29, 2006

Human trafficking (Puntland): Greed and the trail of death, Independ, May 25, 2006  

People smuggling from Somalia to Yemen intensifies, hundreds thrown overboard.  Bring charges against the rules in Puntland and Yemen.  They have jurisdiction over the ports and the waters where the killing takes place.  They know the criminals, their hiding places, and their plans. They must be held accountable for giving them protection and immunity, May 22, 2006

Gun-toting smugglers force migrants overboard off Yemen, drowning at least 39, UN, May 9, 2006

Smugglers drown 39 off Yemeni coast, UPI, May 9, 2006

Giama Mosque, 1238, originally built as a school, is the first University in the country.

SYL
May 15, 1943
Their vision of a united, prosperous, & just Somalia remains the firm aspiration of millions of Somalis