Word: subclans
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...definite change in the attitude toward humanitarian workers," says U.N. aid official Paul Mitchell. "We are now targets." Aid staff members, alone and together & with their uniformed escorts, have taken sides, wittingly and unwittingly, in these fragmented, fratricidal wars. In Somalia, "relief workers tend to become identified with different subclans," says Lance Salisbury, assistant country representative for Catholic Relief Services. "And the leaders attempt to draw you into larger conflicts." In Baidoa, where Salisbury is based, most of his staff is from the Lyssan subclan, which prompted attacks from an opposing subclan...
...growing number of critics are suggesting that the U.N. has gone off course in hunting Aidid, damaging its credibility as a neutral peacemaker. Howe insists that the U.N. remains impartial. "We oppose no clan, subclan or party," he says. "We must, however, defend ourselves and the people of Somalia against terrorist attacks and take the necessary measures to prevent such attacks." Howe is supported by the Pakistanis and others, who agree that Aidid must be removed from the scene if national reconciliation is to be achieved. That determination is shared at the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Les Aspin says...
...Somalia is a mosaic of clans and subclans. The men who captured Mogadishu in January 1991 and put President Mohammed Siad Barre to flight belong to the Hawiye clan. The northern quarter of the capital is held by the , Abagal subclan of interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed. The Habar Gedir subclan of General Mohammed Farrah Aidid dominates the southern three-fourths. At the beginning of last year, hatred of Siad Barre united the groups, but that unity is long gone. Another clan has declared an independent Somaliland in the north; yet another controls the land south and west of Mogadishu...
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