YCL+condemns+gruesome+US+intervention+in+Somalia

PRESS STATEMENT, 14 January 2006
=YCL CONDEMNS THE GRUESOME INTERVENTION IN SOMALIA BY THE UNITED STATES!=

The Young Communist League condemns the highly uncivilized United States (US) attack in Somalia from last weekend, which has resulted into more than 30 lives of innocent civilians perishing. This was astonishing to the extreme; such an act was in total violation of the international law in terms of the application of military intervention in any country and the conditions under which such a force can be justified.

The US has practically undermined the existence of the African Union as a continental supervisor on African affairs and at best had undermined the United Nations. The YCL is worried about the deafening silence from the international community in the condemnation, including South Africa, and those that have spoken like the European Union had little weight to amount to strong language against the United States.

To that extent we are calling for our government through the Foreign Affairs Ministry to publicly condemn this gruesome intervention by the US and our ambassador in the UN Security Council to pronounce strongly on the country’s behalf. And concretely, the African Union must come out harshly and strongly against aggression on African soil without its mandate.

The US must be held to account on such uninvited barbaric act of bullying all and sundry in the guise of decimating Al-Qaeda network.

__Issued by the Young Communist League__


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