According to US department of state, Members of Somali federal and state security forces committed numerous abuses. Significant human rights issues included:
lack of state protection, unlawful or arbitrary killings, extrajudicial killings by government forces, torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment by the government, arbitrary arrest or detention, political prisoners or detainees, serious problems with the independence of the judiciary, serious abuses in an internal conflict, including killing of civilians, enforced disappearances or abductions, torture and physical abuses or punishment, unlawful recruitment or use of child soldiers, and other conflict-related abuses, serious restrictions on free expression, the press, and the internet, including threats of violence, or unjustified arrests or prosecutions against journalists, and criminal libel laws inability of citizens to change their government peacefully through free and fair elections, restrictions on political participation, pervasive acts of corruption, lack of investigation of and accountability for violence against women, female genital mutilation (FGM) crimes involving violence or threats of violence targeting members of national/racial/ethnic minority groups , and existence of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment of children for use in armed conflict, forced labour, and commercial sexual exploitation. Islamist group called Alshabaab they are militant Islamist who carried out Hundreds of suicide bombing including assassinations of scholars.
