The US military rejects the report, saying it has killed 800 militants in air strikes over the past two years, but has not hurt or killed a single civilian
Nairobi — The US military may be guilty of war crimes for killing large numbers of civilians in a sharply stepped-up campaign of air strikes in Somalia over the past two years, Amnesty International said.
“We currently assess no civilian casualties have occurred as a result of any US Africa Command air strikes,” the US military’s Africa command Africom said in an e-mailed response to Reuters. Somalia, one of the poorest countries in the world, has been in a state of civil war and profound insecurity since 1991. In recent years, the US military has been supporting a UN-backed government in Mogadishu fighting against an insurgency by Al-Shabaab.
A US air strike this week killed four people — an employee of cellphone company Hormuud Telecoms and three unidentified passengers — a relative of one of the victims told Reuters on Tuesday.
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