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TRANSCRIPT: MOGADISHU - Somali families are refusing to bury the bodies of 10 loved ones, including three children, until the government takes responsibility for killing them in a U.S.-backed military raid, officials said on Sunday. The ten were shot dead when Somalia's army, supported by U.S. troops, carried out an operation in Bariire village, about 50 km from the capital on Friday. Ali Nur, the deputy governor of the surrounding Lower Shabelle region, told Reuters the bodies would be stored until the government pays compensation - a particularly jarring action in a Muslim culture that buries its dead quickly. Somalia's army initially said all the dead were members of the Islamist al Shabaab militia that it is fighting with help from U.S. and African Union forces - but later acknowledged some civilians had died.
