Mogadishu 12 December, 2009:: Late journalist Hassan Mayow Hassan, 35, was killed on January 2009 near his home town of Afgoye, 30km west of the capital Mogadishu while he was on duty as correspondent reproter of radio Shabelle based in Mogadishu.

Which group is behinds the killing of the journalist, how it happened and why they kill him?

Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) soldiers led by President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed was responsible the killing of the journalist Hassan Mayow Hassan. The journalist was covering a fighting that broke in that morning between government forces and insurgents. Government forces were defeated by the insurgents and the government forces were not happy that people know about the event.

The government forces captured the journalist and asked him about his identification, and as they realised that this is journalist and he might report their defeat to the citizens, the soldiers took immediately a decision to finish him. Mr Hassan Mayow Hassan was shot three bullets on the head.

The man who killed Hassan is well known in Afgoye, He is from Habar Gidir sub-clan of Hawiye clan.

However, the Somali Journalist Rights Agency (SOJRA) gathered all necessary evidence and ready to bring to the attention of the concerned courts and human rights organization.

The ethnic identity of Hassan Mayow Hassan.

The journalist Hassan Mayow Hassan was from the minority communities of Somalia known as 0.5 in words (point five clans) and his sub-clan is Samo-Asal known as Jarerweyne.

Therefore Hassan is the first minority originated journalist killed January in this year for fear of his report, and Said Tahlil was the second reporter from minority clans of Somalia killed also in Mogadishu February this year.

Currently, the insurgent fighting in Somalia executed killings against Somali young boys and girls from minority clans, and claims that they made illegal intercourse and stone them to death.

Insurgent never stone to death to any other person from majority clan like Hawiye, Daarood and others.

The feeling of Somali media society for his assassination

The brutal murder of Hassan Mayow Hassan was the characters a violent start of the year for Somali journalists and media professionals in across the country.

Somalia is dangerous country for journalists and all provinces of the country journalist are killed, tortured.

Media houses have been persistently shut down by the authorities and reporters Somali and foreign have been routinely kidnapped by armed militia in Puntland region and south and central regions.

Recommendations.

The Somali Journalist Rights Agency (SOJRA) calls for the international community and human rights groups to make sure for their collaboration and support to the Somali journalists and media professionals as Somalia continues to be a danger place for the journalists. The journalists risk their lives to bring the hiden story of the ongoing conflict to the world and SOJRA is gravely concerned about the growing violation of press freedom in Somalia particularly south and central Somalia.

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