Word: somali
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intersection was already filled with Somali fighters bombarding Wolcott's wreckage with AK-47 assault rifles and grenades. Facing directly into the enfilade, Maier's only defense was a light submachine gun, which he fired from the cockpit with his right hand. That left the pilot only his left hand to steady the chopper, while copilot Keith Jones struggled to load two injured Rangers aboard, then yelled at Maier to take off. Left behind were a handful of wounded Rangers, plus the bodies of Wolcott and his copilot, Donovan Briley, 33, of Little Rock, Arkansas...
...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...
...Warring Somali factions met in neighboring Ethiopia to discuss the fate of Somalia. Chances for success in the negotiations were improved by the late arrival of powerful clan leader Mohammed Farrah Aidid, who boycotted a U.N.-sponsored humanitarian-aid meeting earlier in the week. Aidid, only recently the target of a manhunt by U.S. forces, flew to the conference aboard an American military plane...
...young lawyer explains why he wants to go to Meiguo, the Beautiful Country, the Mandarin name for America: "My colleagues tried to discourage me from going," he says. "But I feel I have to improve myself." In a displaced-persons camp on the outskirts of Nairobi, a cheery Somali is also waiting patiently to go to America, but he is in luck: he already has a visa and a seat on an upcoming flight. "There is no tribalism in the U.S.," he explains as a motive for his move. "There is a state of peace...
...County, Georgia, decided not to press charges of child molestation against a South American woman suspected of stroking her male toddler's genitals, having concluded that "this is the way her culture taught her to put healthy young boys to sleep." Four years earlier, however, he had brought a Somali woman to trial for allegedly performing a clitoridectomy, traditional in some parts of Africa, on her two- year-old niece. In 1989 Dong Lu Chen, a Chinese immigrant in New York City, hammered his wife to death because he suspected her of cheating on him. Feminists were outraged when Chen...