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...heard about it at Asha's, otherwise known as the Indy Cafe. That's where we also found out that UNPROFOR troops -- United Nations peacekeepers -- and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's boys were mixing it up, apparently because one side had attacked the other. No one takes the gloves off to mix it up because of Sarajevo or Sarajevans...
...good harvest of sorghum, set up a water pump and construct a small chicken farm. Then suddenly in November, the bad old days returned. A dispute about two stolen camels between rival subclans quickly escalated into a hit-and-run war. When the shooting stopped, 15 villages, including Asha Farto, lay in smoking ruins. All the sorghum stored by the farmers had been looted or torched, and when the seasonal rains failed the following month, the villagers were forced once again to turn to international agencies for food. "The troops brought us no change at all," says Mohammed with...
...fortifying their compounds with razor wire, sandbagged guard posts and well-armed local gunmen. For many Somalis, the echoes of 1991 and early 1992, when the world stood by while the country slipped into famine, are disturbing. "Everyone will have to leave this place," says Aden Abdulrahman Mohammed in Asha Farto. That may be possible for a fortunate few. For the majority of Somalis, there will be no escape...
...Colorado Democrat favors economic sanctions against countries that tolerate genital mutilation. But many African-born women who live in the U.S. are opposed. "Sanctions are stupid," says Dr. Asha Mohamud, a Somali-born pediatrician in Washington. "The practice is not being done intentionally to harm anyone. Mothers do it in good faith for their children. If you cut funding to these countries, you are hurting the people you want to protect. The goal should be to improve the economic and educational status of women...
...What the hell are you asking us for? Go ask Manfred Worner, or Yeltsin. They're the bigwigs," snapped Asha, cleaning his pipe. Pause. "As far as we're concerned, from now on, the only person worth turning to is Yeltsin. Maybe later on it'll be Zhirinovsky," concluded Asha, frantically trying to light his pipe with a lighter that had the U.N. insignia on it. No go. I guess there wasn't any flint left...