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   (Reuters) – Somali Islamist group al Shabaab shot two men and a teenager in   
   southern Somalia on Tuesday, saying one of the men and the 15-year-old had   
   been seen having gay sex, while the other man was found guilty of spying, a   
   senior al Shabaab    
   official said.   
      
   Hundreds of civilians gathered in a field in the town of Buale to watch them   
   being shot, the second time al Shabaab has killed men accused of   
   homosexuality, the official said, without giving details of the previous   
   killing.   
      
   Homosexuality and gay sex is outlawed in most of Africa’s 54 states and can   
   be punishable by imprisonment.   
      
   “The judge read their charges publicly and the three men were found guilty.   
   They were executed according to the Islamic sharia. They were shot dead in   
   Buale town,” Sheikh Mohamed Abu Abdalla, a regional governor for al Shabaab,   
   told Reuters.   
      
   A Somali government official said any case of homosexuality in Muslim Somalia   
   would be dealt with according to sharia law, although he did not specify what   
   that would mean in practice.   
      
   Al Shabaab militants are fighting against Western-backed government forces in   
   Mogadishu in a bid to impose its strict interpretation of Islamic, or sharia,   
   law.   
      
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