- The Africa Watch report, “A Government at War with Its Own People”
estimated that roughly 50,000 to 60,000 people were killed between May
of 1988 and the beginning of 1990.[xv] While it is unlikely that all of these deaths are civilian, with SNM membership estimated at only 10,000[xvi],
it is clear that many civilians were killed, the large majority of
which were Isaak. Deaths were inflicted through indiscriminate
government bombing of the towns of Hargeisa and Burao. Civilians fleeing
from fighting were strafed by government planes.
Although the largest spike in killings is in May and August of 1988,
the government’s Somali National Army (SNA) continued to target the
Isaak community over many months through round-ups and mass executions
of Isaak civilians at the town level.
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