Word: somali
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact of the matter is that we did have to drag the UN in--we forced their hand by insisting that we would pull out relatively quickly no matter what--and perhaps we could have done a better job rebuilding the Somali state by ourselves. But this is precisely why it is encouraging that we were able to shirk the role of world leader and become one power among many. American hubris has doomed many a plan, and some rationality is nice for a change...
...Somali civil war receives a vastly different characterization. Gone is the World War II language, and instead the warlords are described as "petulant children" (The New York Times...
...bloodshed illustrated just how fragile peace can be. Somalia's warlords, though supposedly disarmed, are still capable of turning bloody at a moment's notice. "Somali people do not care if there is a war or not," said a gray-eyed Aidid loyalist. "If you are a gunman, you can't leave off fighting. That is your...
...PART company on the best of terms, the scene in Somalia turned nasty. On Wednesday demonstrators set up burning roadblocks along the main thoroughfares in Mogadishu and pelted passing U.S. servicemen with chunks of concrete. Banners paraded past the Marine base at the old American embassy read THIS IS SOMALI SAND NOT AMERICAN SAND. Later in the week, fierce fire fights erupted in several parts of the city between UNITAF (Unified Task Force) troops and Somalis thought to be loyal to General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, leaving five American servicemen and two Nigerians injured and an estimated 10 Somalis dead...
Arroyo's 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...