Word: somalians
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...United Nations a high profile. Such trends, however, should not dictate the bounds of objective analysis of the organization. The frequently unreported successes of the UN should also be remembered. It has been credited with the peaceful settlement of 172 regional conflicts since 1945. For every Bosnian quagmire or Somalian fiasco dominating headlines, there exist the examples of Cambodia's post-civil war transition to normalcy and South Africa's first universal election, both of which were coordinated by the UN. In fact, the UN has enabled free and fair elections in forty-five countries in the past 50 years...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: Presaging a new wave of Somalian violence, the son of a dead Somali warlord took his father's place on Sunday, vowing to preserve the political structure created by his father. Hussein Mohamed Aidid, a former U.S. Marine reservist, served with U.S. forces sent to Somalia in 1992. His father was killed last Thursday. Aidid was named interim president of Somalia by his clan and promptly promised to pacify the troubled nation by eliminating his rivals. Aidid's men killed two gunmen of Ali Madhi's faction Sunday, just days after two other warlords declared a unilateral cease...
Moreover, the blood of an American soldier is no redder than that of a Somalian peasant. If one soldier dies for every hundred Serbs forced to put down their weapons, the United States will have achieved a remarkable success while putting to shame the isolationist European powers personified by Great Britain's ineffective Lord Owen...
Americans were rightly outraged at the sight of Somalian thugs waylaying humanitarian aid. But it should have been obvious from the start that to effectively "restore hope" would require the disarming of the Somalian warlords, as U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali had originally requested...
...such a settlement were to rely on anything more than token U.N. military support, however, it might be doomed. Boutros-Ghali notes that U.N. members have stubbornly not put up the money that could finance Somalian peace -- funds needed to organize police forces or a judicial system, for example. So American troops might have to pull out with no settlement in place, and if Somalia remains dangerous, it seems unlikely that other troops will stay after the Yanks go. Boutros-Ghali remarks that France, Italy, Belgium, Jordan and Tunisia are already talking about pulling out even before the U.S. does...