By Enyichukwu Enemanna
A Somali-based terrorist organisation, al-Shabab has executed seven men in the southwestern region of Bay in Somalia by firing squad.
Six of the men executed were accused of spying for the Somali government and the US.
The execution which was conducted publicly took place in the vicinity of Buula-Fulay in Somalia’s Bay region late Saturday.
Three of them were also accused of providing intelligence that led to the killing of senior al-Shabab leaders, Yusuf Jiis and Abdulkadir Commandos, who were targeted in U.S. airstrikes in 2020.
An al-Shabab judge told local spectators that the six men have confessed, though he did not provide evidence.
Al-Shabab courts don’t allow lawyers who can defend the accused.
Meanwhile, Ethiopia’s Somali state president Mustafe Omar said that the region’s special forces operations against al-Shabab militants inflicted the group heavy casualties.
He said they believe that the troops killed 600 al-Shabab fighters during their operations against the militant group who a week ago infiltrated Ethiopia, sparking new confrontations near the Ethiopian border with Somalia.
