Mukhtar Robow逮捕をめぐる騒動で死者多数

BBC Somalia violence: Deadly Baidoa clashes over Robow arrest 14 December 2018

「Several people are reported to have been killed in southern Somalia as violence erupted following the arrest of a former al-Shabab commander set to contest regional elections.」

　兵士・市民を含む少なくとも11名が死亡したという。
　来週の州知事戦を前に有力候補者が拘束されれば、そりゃまあ暴動も起きようが―流石にMukhtar Robowである、影響力がおおきい。

「Among those killed in protests was a member of the regional parliament, Baidoa elder Saleh Isak told Reuters news agency.」

　地方議員まで死んでると。

「But his standing with the government collapsed when he announced his candidacy to become president of South West state.

This poses a threat to the government's intended control of the area through its preferred candidate, Abdiaziz Lafta Gareen.」

「The arrest has backfired as it seems the powerbrokers in the capital, Mogadishu, did not predict these protests in Baidoa. 」

　…いやバックラッシュおきるだろ、それ。地元有力部族出身で、反政府武装勢力の元有力指導者で…基盤はあってしかも能力は疑いないのだし。

　そんなわけで、『いちおう味方なら、本流とはちがっても多少は泳がす』という度量を示せなかったモガディシュ政府の余裕のなさ・度量の足りなさがこの事態を招いたかなあとメモしておこう。

「Following his arrest, a government statement said he had been organising a militia in Baidoa.」

「"These actions indicate that he never relinquished his extremist ideologies and is ready to harm the Somali people again," the statement said」

　…政府側としてはこういうふうに言わざるを得ないかな。

関連：「Mukhtar Robow逮捕（2018-12-14）」