OCCUPATION OF SOMALIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES

That this House notes the publication by Amnesty International of damning evidence of human rights abuses carried out by Ethiopian forces and their allies in Somalia; further notes that 700,000 people, nearly half of the population of Mogadishu, have been forced to flee following the Ethiopian invasion; recalls that the US administration has trained and supplied Ethiopian troops involved in the occupation of Somalia and that the European Union is also a funder of the regimes in Ethiopia and occupied Somalia; and therefore supports the call by Amnesty International for an international commission of inquiry into allegations of war crimes in Somalia and into the role of other countries that have given military or financial support to those who might have committed them.