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...Distinctions between soldiers and civilians become harder to make and less respected. There are no rules of engagement and no one reliable with whom to negotiate. The Hutu army chief of staff guaranteed safe passage to U.N. soldiers evacuating wounded Tutsi civilians. But soldiers along the road stopped the convoy, ordered people out and set upon them with machetes. "They said they didn't take orders from the army chief of staff," said U.N. spokesman Abdul Kabia...
...been surrounded by bands of machete-armed Hutu men. The foreigners had little doubt about the future of their patients or the 500 Tutsis who had come for refuge $ from the fighting outside. "They're finished," said hospital administrator Gerard Van Selst as he boarded an armored Belgian convoy. "A huge number will be killed." One American sheltered a fugitive opposition politician and helped him to safety. But there were too many others he could not help. "I saw scenes that will haunt me for the rest of my life," he said. "Bodies. Piles of bodies, women and children. Just...
...from Delta Force, the premier U.S. counterterrorism unit, and several hundred Army Rangers had captured 24 of Aidid's closest colleagues. While helicopters from Task Force 160, the Army's special-operations air wing, fluttered overhead, the Rangers herded the prisoners into a nearby courtyard and awaited a ground convoy to take them away. Then came the radio report that would change everything: "One of the birds is down...
...possible that Saturday's marketplace massacre was one of those grotesque blunders of war. A cease-fire had gone into effect at 9 that morning in order to let a convoy of refugees leave the city. To minimize the risk of casualties, the convoy was split in two. Three buses had passed the Serb checkpoint and three were being loaded near the marketplace when the attack was launched. Observers speculated that Serb gunmen, seeing the first buses pass, assumed that the cease-fire was over and simply aimed at the biggest crowd they could see. To minimize casualties...
...Marine convoy fired into a crowded Mogadishu street, killing eight Somalis. The Americans blamed snipers, but Somali witnesses insisted that the crowd was peacefully waiting in line for free food. With American troops pulling out by March 31, the U.N. Security Council voted Friday to scale back the troubled operation and exhorted Somalis to get serious about forming a government...