Word: bardera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...famine that snuffed out 300,000 lives in 1992 may have passed its peak before the Marines landed. But there is no doubt that the American-led intervention saved many. Julie Bryant, a Red Cross nurse outside Bardera, recalls that often children were trundled in in wheelbarrows, too weak to walk. "Look," she says, pointing to a boy registered in her logbook. "That child should have been dead. Now there is such life here: they argue, they play football." As she speaks, a group of kids runs past chasing a pet baboon with a red cross painted on its bottom...
...task of forcible disarmament on any large scale, even with their superior firepower. U.S. soldiers did not intervene in the worst fighting in the port city of Kismayu in February, opting instead for a "show of force" that accomplished nothing. Marines avoided forays beyond the town of Bardera because it would have placed them at risk from land mines and marauding gunmen...
...death dramatized the continuing violence in Somalia. Much of it was directed against U.S. forces under orders to confiscate numerous arms caches controlled by Somali warlords, but others are caught in the middle. The International Red Cross suspended operations after one of its officials was killed by robbers in Bardera. At week's end leaders of 14 feuding Somali factions meeting in Ethiopia agreed to a cease-fire at home. But word of the stand-down had still not reached Mogadishu, where gunfire continued to sound routinely. At least 100,000 Somalis still carry weapons...
...moving into the final four of the eight towns where distribution - of food and supplies will be centered. From secure bases in those towns, military patrols and relief workers will fan out to feed the starving in the southern Somalian countryside. On the road to one of the centers, Bardera, a land mine caused the first American casualties: a civilian Army employee was killed, and three State Department security personnel were wounded...
...Bardera's feeding center, the lines stretch to despair...