After implementing laws against rape, the government has recently executed two soldiers Hassan Amin and Abdulkadir Abdi by firing squad for raping an 11 years old boy in Baidoa.
According to reports, Two soldiers in the southwestern Somali town of Baidoa were executed by firing squad on Tuesday after confessing to raping an 11-year-old boy, authorities said.
Liban Hassan Amin, 29, and Farhan Abdulkadir Abdi, 23, were accused of raping the boy on July 11. The men, who had been held at a detention center, were executed after approval by the region’s 14-member security council, officials told VOA’s Somali service.
Mohamed Hussein Hassan, the regional justice minister, said authorities had obtained evidence of the rape as well as confessions by the men.
An official told VOA Somali that Amin had been accused of rape last year but was released for lack of evidence.
By Chinenye Gertrude
GGB reports
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