ソマリア・公開処刑

現在発売中のTIME誌に、ソマリアについてのレポートが載っている。Alex Perry "The Suffering of Somalia"。そのなかに、公開処刑された１３歳少女についての文章がある。

Al-Shabaab (Arabic for Youth) now controls much of the south of the country, in the manner of the Taliban: on Oct.27, 1,000 spectators gathered at a sports stadium in the port of Kismayo to watch al-Shabaab stone to death a 13-year-old girl, Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow. Amnisty International says al-Shabaab arrested her and convicted her of adultery after she complained she had been gang-raped. (p.37 TIME EU version, November 24, 2008.)

Reuters通信は処刑の状況を以下のように報じている。

The 23-year-old woman was placed in a hole up to her neck for the execution late on Monday in front of hundreds of people in a square of the southern port of Kismayu, which the Islamist insurgents captured in August.

Stones were hurled at her head, and she was brought out of the hole three times to see if she had died.

When a relative and others surged forward, guards opened fire, killing a child, the witnesses said.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE49R34D20081028

上記の記事で２３歳となっているが、AP通信によるとこれは１３歳の誤りだとのこと。

Initial local media reports said Duhulow was 23, but her father told Amnesty International she was 13. Some of the Somali journalists who first reported the killing later told Amnesty International that they had reported she was 23 based upon her physical appearance.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27484976/#storyContinued

TIME誌は、記事全体を次のように結んでいる。

Perhaps only in Somalia could the prospect of more war be a sign of hope. (p.37)

この最後の文章を肯定して良いのかどうか、私には分からない。