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Somalia is not just a humanitarian disaster but a threat to peace in the region. Refugees are pouring into Kenya and Ethiopia, straining the fragile social, political and economic structures there. Until recently, the world seemed barely to care. The Horn of Africa is no longer the cockpit of East- West competition that it was during the cold war. In this respect too, Somalia has been a black hole -- a dark spot in the universe of the big powers' strategic concerns...
Colonialism came to Somalia in the late 19th century, when Britain took the northern third and Italy the south. Once the borders were set, many of the nomads suddenly found themselves citizens of neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia. What little political organization the Somalis had collapsed, and the Europeans replaced it with Western centralized governments that brought the nomads their first schools, police and courts. But the colonialists also gave the Somalis a common threat to rally against. The nationalist Somali Youth League gained strength by stressing clan unity and encouraging territorial reunification...
Hopes of independence were sidetracked by Italy's defeat in World War II. Under British military rule, part of Somalia's territory was turned over to Ethiopia to atone for pre-war European aggression. In 1950, the United Nations allowed Italy to return as a caretaker until Somalia was deemed self- sufficient...
...attempt to head off armed resistance, U.S. officials are meeting in Ethiopia with representatives of the major Somali factions. Some clan leaders, including the Mogadishu kingpin Mohammed Farrah Aidid, claim that they welcome U.S. intervention; Aidid even staged pro-American parades last week. But Western analysts suspect he simply hopes to improve his own position. If he and his rivals feel power slipping away, their attitude could quickly change. Clan chieftains do not, in any case, control all the thugs marauding through the country...
...saying that. I consider myself to be a Christian. I consider the Vatican to be anti-Christian because in the name of Christianity, they committed anti-Christian acts. They blessed the bombs that went into Ethiopia. They gave permission for the Irish people to be starved, the French people, the African people, for the Jewish people to be slaughtered. They are responsible for all of the destruction we see in the world today...