Washington, February 27 (RHC)-- The U.S. military has vastly under-reported the number of civilians killed in U.S.-supported airstrikes in Somalia, with the number of civilian deaths as much as 69 times greater than acknowledged by U.S. Africa Command.
According to data released by the watchdog monitoring group Airwars, as many as 139 civilians have been killed in U.S.-backed strikes in Somalia since 2007. That figure far exceeds AFRICOM’s official count of only two civilian deaths.
