We also call on the troop contributing countries in AMISOM to avoid acting unliterally outside the legal framework provided for in the UNSCR 1725 Resolution, Status of Mission Agreement (SOMA), Interim Somali Federal Constitution, and other laws of the country. In so doing, AMISOM will avoid being instrumentalised for committing extra-legal activities for which they can be rightly blamed and held responsible in the eyes of the international legal system.

We, equally, ask the international partners to consider the importance of bringing perpetrators of human rights violations to book within and beyond the borders of Somalia as that would likely reduce the impunity with which such abuses are committed time and again by individuals who could be held accountable for their actions.

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Members of the National Salvation Caucus namely Nabada, Wadajir, Himilo Qaran, and UPD as well as independent parliamentarians who are not yet affiliated with political parties