Somalia: Troops Shot Dead Shoes Cleaner Boy in Mogadishu
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Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
27 August 2008
Posted to the web 27 August 2008
Mogadishu
Somalia's transitional government troops have killed a young shoes cleaner boy in Zobe area south of Mogadishu as they were conducting search operations in the similar area on Wednesday, eyewitnesses said.
The boy was reported to have been killed as he was seeking customer to clean for shoes to earn some charges he depends himself but unfortunately he was shot to death by the troops.
"One of the soldiers hit three bullets on the little boy's head where suddenly died" eyewitness Hassan Bashir told Shabelle English service.
It's yet strange the motive behind the soldier's act they killed that young shoes cleaner boy.
Many street children die during the cross fire of both warring sides in Somalia, their life in difficult and danger they usually stroll the streets collecting in whole day searching only what they eat let alone clothing and education.
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These children never get education, when they wake up the first step the do is to look for some thing to put their mouth, they live in hand to mouth.
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