Laporan saka Mombasa sewengi ngomongake babagan helikopter militer Kenya sing ditembak dening milisi Somalia militan Islam sing ngontrol wilayah tapel wates ing sisih perbatasan Somalia. Awak helikopter bisa lolos saka pati nanging padha tatu lan wiwit digawa menyang rumah sakit militer. Helikopter kasebut, miturut sumber Kenya, jelas ana ing wilayah Kenya, mabur ing sadawane tapel wates kanggo ngawasi lan patroli wilayah sing dikenal kanggo infiltrasi lintas wates.
Militan Somalia ing jaman kepungkur malah nyerbu desa-desa Kenya ing sadawane tapel wates kanggo nggoleki pasokan nanging wis diusir kanthi rutin (pirsani artikel eTN sing gegandhengan, "Uni Afrika dumunung ing Eritrea"). Kenya bubar nggawe pangkalan maju anyar kanggo militer ing sadawane tapel wates karo Somalia, dene pos tapel wates wis ditutup kanthi resmi sawetara taun kepungkur dening pamrentah Kenya.
Sawetara milisi kasebut dipetik kanthi terang-terangan ngumumake kepinginan kanggo nggawe Somalia sing luwih gedhe kanthi nggabungake wilayah ing Ethiopia lan Kenya menyang wilayahe, lan Kenya lan Ethiopia, ing jaman kepungkur, perang karo Somalia kanggo mbela integritas teritorial ing wilayah kasebut. Wilayah Ogaden lan ing jaman biyen diarani "Distrik Perbatasan Utara" ing Kenya.
Sumber militer Kenyan resmi wis ngonfirmasi kahanan kasebut nanging ora ngonfirmasi sababe kacilakan kasebut.
APA sing kudu dijupuk saka ARTIKEL INI:
- Some of the militias are quoted to have openly declared their desire to create a greater Somalia by integrating areas in Ethiopia and Kenya into their fiefdom, and both Kenya and Ethiopia have, in the past, fought wars with Somalia to defend their territorial integrity in the Ogaden region and in what in the old days was called the “Northern Frontier District”.
- Kenya has more recently established new forward bases for her military along the border with Somalia, while the border posts have been officially closed for the past several years by the Kenyan government.
- Laporan saka Mombasa sewengi ngomongake babagan helikopter militer Kenya sing ditembak dening milisi Somalia militan Islam sing ngontrol wilayah tapel wates ing sisih perbatasan Somalia.
