On 13 June 1993, an element of the Pakistani contingent of UNOSOM II opened fire with a machine gun onto a crowd of protestors in Mogadishu, Somalia, shooting approximately 70 Somalis.
[3][9][10][11] On 5 June 1993, the Pakistani contingent of UNOSOM II suffered the loss of 25 of its peacekeepers in a battle with Somali militia and citizens, marking the single deadliest killing UN forces since the Congo in 1961.
[8] At 6 pm on the day following the 5 June incident, a minibus carrying unarmed civilians traveling on Suuqa Hoola Road was fired on by Pakistani UNOSOM forces, allegedly resulting in the death of four passengers and several wounded.
"[12]De Waal would further criticized UNOSOM for not launching an investigation into the 12 June killings, arguing that the incident was a clear violation of human rights as the Pakistanis had faced no threat from the protestors when they had opened fire.
More than a block away from the crowd, the troops opened fire with a belt-fed machine gun from a sandbagged emplacement on a building rooftop overlooking the streets, without any warning according to Somali and foreign journalists accounts.
[15] A 10-year old bystander was shot in the head and 2-year-old boy named Hussein Ali Ibrahim was half a mile away when he was struck in the abdomen and killed in the barrage of machine gun fire.
[8] According to Alexander Joe, a photographer with Agence France-Presse, later a Pakistani U.N. convoy drove closely past children on the street who had been wounded in the shooting, pleading for their help and proceeded to ignore them.
[11] War correspondent Donatella Lorch would report in The New York Times the deaths of a young man and pregnant woman at Banadir Hospital who, according to relatives, both been shot in the chest by Pakistani soldiers.
[8] The following day on the 14 June, Doctors Without Borders responded to the killings with press release denouncing the excessive use of force by UNOSOM II troops and the president of the organization decried the incident as "monstrous".
Gen. Ikram ul-Hasan, denied accusations from reporters that his men were seeking retaliation for the 5 June 1993 ambush and American ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright publicly defended that actions of the Pakistanis as executed in self defence.