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- Since the start of the year, the US has carried out dozens of airstrikes in Somalia, where it is battling the extremist group Al-Shabaab.
- Amnesty International says the airstrikes are not just killing "terrorists," but innocent civilians. A new report details two strikes in February 2020 that it says, respectively, killed a farmer and a young woman sitting down to eat.
- The US military has only admitted to killing two civilians in over a decade of airstrikes in Somalia.
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US President Donald Trump wants to be seen as both reluctant to start a war but also, amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, as a tough, war-time president. But even as his administration has pivoted to addressing COVID-19, the commander in chief has also dramatically escalated a real-life deployment of air power in Somalia — one that, according to locals and researchers at Amnesty International, is killing civilians with impunity.
"Reality does not match Trump's rhetoric," Daphne Eviatar, director of Amnesty International's security with human rights program, told Business Insider. Despite the occasional tweet against "forever wars," there has been an "escalation of strikes in Somalia, and [a] huge spike in numbers of civilians killed by US strikes, in Somalia and elsewhere, since 2017."
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