The violent clashes between Ethiopian troops and Islamist fighters left 81 victims over the past two days.

The deaths were caused during the heavy attacks in the residential areas of Mogadishu, also wounding 119 others. The rights leader, Sudan Ali Ahmed, chairman of Elman Human Rights said that all victims were civilians and that his group condemns the latest fighting.

"We are condemning the warring sides in the strongest terms for violating human rights and committing war crimes against civilians," Ahmed said according to CNN. He also accused the rebels of turning civilians into human shields. Large numbers of civilians have been evacuating the area, leaving the battle side of the northeastern neighborhoods. The number of displaced Somalis, according to different aid groups, is at this point of more than one million people.

Somalia was invaded by Ethiopians in December 2006 with the mission to install the U.N.- backed transitional government. The change was considered a must after the decade and a half of near-anarchy. The Islamists quickly responded with a guerilla war and managed to destroy Ethiopia’s plans.

The invasion also had the approval of the United States, which believed that the Islamic Courts Union was harboring individuals suspected to be connected with al Qaeda operatives, including the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

One year after the invasion, the Ethiopian government solicited a peacekeeping mission from the international contributors but the general response was rather weak.

At this point Somalia is in the middle of a very serious crisis, as it has not had a functioning government since 1991.