Somalia: Amnesty International's human rights concerns in southern and central Somalia

Index Number: AFR 52/013/2010
Date Published: 18 October 2010
Categories: Somalia

Amnesty International is concerned at the widespread violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law, including war crimes, and the dire humanitarian situation that civilians face in southern and central Somalia. Civilians are at high risk of being killed and injured in indiscriminate attacks by all parties to the internal armed conflict, and as a result of a situation of generalized violence and collapse of the rule of law.