At least 2 persons were wounded after the police shot live ammunition in air to disperse crowds of demonstrators in Borama city in Awdal Region. Hundreds of people areas inhabited unionist constituencies gathered and demonstrated in front of the main police station in Borama. This protest came after unconfirmed news leaked out that the three drivers who transported the ONLF linked militia from the coast of Somaliland to the Ethiopian border are being transferred to police authority in Ethiopia.Officials in the central Police Station in Borama told the press that they are still holding only two of the three drivers after one of the three drivers is taken away by his relatives during the demonstration from the police station.Eyewitnesses in the city told that a group of people attacked the station and hit the police car with a SUV truck or what is know as Surf Car in Somaliland. The three drivers were in the police car during the collision. Then the group of people opened fire on the police and run away with one of the drivers.Somaliland government is fairly unpopular in Awdal Province. Awdil in Northern Somali Unionist Region . most of the peoble are are pro-union .2008 Human Rights Watch accused the Ethiopian soldiers of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during a counterinsurgency campaign in its Eastern Somali region. Ethiopian army is notoriously known of indiscriminate violence against minority groups in Eastern parts of the country.The Ogaden National Liberation Front, an ethnic-Somali rebel group that seeks self- determination in part of eastern Ethiopia.
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