Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...started with an assault on Pakistani U.N. peacekeepers in Mogadishu and escalated into a bombing campaign against the attack's instigator, Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. Finally, U.N. troops stormed Aidid's stronghold, forcing him to flee, and to remain separated from most of his supporters. Five U.N. troops and over 100 Somali militia were killed; 46 peacekeepers and more than 100 Somalis were wounded...
...that killed 23 blue-helmeted U.N. peacekeepers from Pakistan. By last weekend, under authority of an arrest warrant issued by Howe, the U.N. forces had not caught Aidid despite house-to- house searches, but were satisfied they had him on the run. Five U.N. troops, four Moroccans and one Pakistani, were killed, and more than 100 Somali militia died during the raid...
Howe called the operation "very surgical," but Somalis were not convinced. Trust in the U.N.'s motives and skills was badly strained in the first days of the anti-Aidid campaign when at least 20 Somalis in a crowd of demonstrators, children included, were killed by Pakistani peacekeepers. Many Somalis and foreign journalists at the scene say the Pakistanis opened fire from behind sandbagged fortifications when the crowd was still 100 yds. away...
...accused of ordering the ambushes in which 23 Pakistani peacekeepers died may not be "the Eisenhower of Somalia," as he has described himself. But he is also not the simple thug that the U.S. has made him out to be. The sixtyish former ambassador to India remains the most prominent figure in the powerful Habr Gadir clan and a heavyweight in the country's precarious power balance. He is widely respected by Somalis for his leadership in ousting former dictator Mohammed Siad Barre and for his military successes on behalf of his clan. His anti-U.N. and -U.S. radio...
...Clinton had called home 24,000 troops, but some 4,000 were still in and around Mogadishu when gunmen struck at the Pakistani peacekeepers. They were angered by the viciousness of the assault on the peacekeepers. Gunmen had used women and children as human shields, and mutilated the corpses of the fallen Pakistanis. Aidid hardly showed remorse. A few days prior to the U.S. raid he blamed the U.N. for provoking the lethal firefight. "Unfortunately," he boasted, "I have no power or authority to arrest them...