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 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Ethiopian and Somali forces may have committed war crimes during four days of heavy artillery shelling against an Islamic insurgency in the Somali capital and foreign donors could be complicit, a European Union conflict expert said in an e-mail obtained by The Associated Press.
The United States, United Nations and the European Union have provided millions of dollars to support Somalia's fragile interim government. Ethiopian troops intervened in December to protect the government and defeat their militant Islamic rivals.
But Islamic insurgents and clan militiamen have attacked government and Ethiopian troops in recent weeks. An operation by Ethiopian-backed government forces last week sparked the heaviest fighting in 15 years, leaving hundreds of civilians dead, and the tactics they used raised concerns among EU experts.
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