A warlord (now chased away from Mogadishu)used to talk to his henchmen the following way. He used to instruct them to kill anyone whom they suspected to have had an opinion quite different from the one he preached. His enemies included activists, journalists, defenders of human rights etc.

When you see it conceived
Make it suffer in the womb
Once a revolution is born
It will spread everywhere
It is like fire in the bush
You can never contain it
Be alert, be vigilant
Keep eye on creeping shadows
Before they are buried here
Destroy the seeds of change
Or deny them to germinate
Like abandoned eggs
Let them rot in the soil
Crush the silent movement
Or kill the activist himself
But don't be hard with him
Just shoot him in the head
Without pain let him pass away
He didn't respect us to live
But we respect his right to die
After all death is a human right
We stand to defend that right
We are the Somali warlords