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More than 18 months after U.S. forces relinquished Somalia to its entrenched warlords, the country is "moving toward all-out war," reports Nairobi bureau chief Andrew Purvis. Sunday, General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, the warlord whose fighters had attacked U.N. peacekeepers during their failed operation to feed starving Somalis, assaulted Baidoa, a city of 300,000 people northwest of the capitol of Mogadishu. At least 10 people were reportedly killed, and Aidid is now holding 20 foreign aid workers against their will. Baidoa is controlled by a rival warlord, Ali Mahdi Mohamed. "It could just have been a looting...
Liberia's armed guerrilla leaders have driven the nominally democratic West African country into the ground with six years of civil war, and so mercilessly that half the population fled. Today, hundreds of thousands of cheering but exhausted civilians lined the streets of Monrovia as several of the chief warlords re-entered the capital for the first time in years. In an elaborate ceremony attended by foreign diplomats, the warlords were seated on a new six-member Council of State. Andrew Purvis, Nairobi bureau chief, reports that they have reason to believe that the ceasefire -- the war's thirteenth -- will...
...FRANJO TUDJMAN is trying to do is to free the Krajina region totally from the Serbian army of occupation [Croatia, March 20]. Let's not forget the U.S.'s own history, when colonists were compelled to deal with the British in exactly the same manner. To tag Tudjman a warlord is to imply that the "Father of Our Country," George Washington, was not a Founding Father but just another vain warlord...
...settlement may be Tudjman's vanity. The 72-year-old Croat yearns to be recognized as a world statesman--not a mere regional warlord--and he has a chance to play that role this week in a visit to Washington. In public, the State Department is providing him with a place of honor during ceremonies marking the first anniversary of a Croat-Muslim federation in Bosnia...
...casualties completely turned the American commitment on its head. Rather than aggressively pursuing the warlord, as was stated policy, the Americans drew back, startled. Magazines splashed pictures of dead Americans across their covers, and the Clinton administration seemed as shocked as anyone. Within a few weeks, American participation in the Somalia operation was severely curtailed. Just a few weeks ago, the last Americans left and the warlords now are free again to wreak havoc on their society...