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Somali Islamists order teenagers’ hands, legs cut off

July 16, 2009 Child Abuse, Human Rights, Religion No Comments

* Amputations ordered by Islamist insurgents

* President calls on world community to save Somalia

(Adds Amnesty International)

MOGADISHU, June 22 (Reuters) – Somalia’s al Shabaab insurgents in a Mogadishu stronghold sentenced four teenagers on Monday to each have a hand and a leg amputated as punishment for robbery.

It would be the first such amputation carried out by the Islamist rebels, who follow strict sharia law in the parts of south Somalia they control.

Al Shabaab — whose ranks are swelled by foreign jihadists and is seen by Western security services as a proxy for al Qaeda in Somalia — has carried out executions, floggings and single-limb amputations before, mainly in south Kismayu port.

It is battling the government of President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed for control of Mogadishu and is fighting a government-allied moderate Islamist militia in the provinces.

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