Ethiopian trained and armed 3,000 TFG militia troops arrived in Mogadishu but are not expected to change the dynamic of the political situation in the capital or bring any peace to Somalia. In fact, concerned Somali civilians expect on the contrary.
As reported by Dalkanews.com on July 19, 2008,. despite the recent peace agreement between the TFG and the ARS which was to promote cease-fire in 30 days with a July 9th deadline, the TFG may have broken the agreement by flooding Mogadishu with 3,000 armed troops to augment the current TFG militia. The troops arrived Mogadishu late last week from the border of Ethiopia and Somalia where they were trained by Ethiopian generals are equipped by Ethiopia's Melez Zenawi. No one know where they are to get their monthly salaries but they are under the command of the Ethiopian army, and as such are known Copy Amhara.
This army of three thousand TFG militia which are under the Tigres command are said to be preparing to continue what the Ethiopian army and the TFG militia were already doing; devastate the business institutions and cause as many civilian casualties, or displace Mogadishu citizens, as was promised by TFG official, Mohamed Dhere, and the Mayer of Mogadishu.
In the past few weeks, the ARS had taken control of many Somali towns and Somali cities from Ethiopian forces and their TFG allies. The TFG and the Ethiopian invading army are hopeful their newly armed three thousand Ethiopia trained troops can retake control of those towns and cities. However, the Alliance of Re liberation of Somalia (ARS) intend to continue their operation of resistance and said these newly armed militia are no different then their kind of TFG clan based militias. Further more, the ARS sees this as an opportunity to capture more weapons for their struggle and vow to gain control of this new army's weapons.
The ARS had already conducted attacks against the newly armed Ethiopia commanded TFG militia. On July 16, Somali news web sites reported that the new copy amhara army arrived Baidoa early morning carrying several trucks loaded with dead and wounded soldiers after being attacked by ARS fighters on their way to the interim capital of the unpopular Somali government. A day earlier, the troops were attacked in Bardaale by ARS fighters on their way to Baidoa who claim to have killed more than 100 troops.
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