[24] The killings happened during the Somali Civil War and have been referred to as a "forgotten genocide". On 11 July 1995, Bosnian Serb units captured the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina. [28][29][30] The scale of destruction led to Hargeisa being known as the 'Dresden of Africa'. You might wanna slow your roll dude Imao, you must have been hella drunk. "[182], During the government campaign against the Isaaq in 1988 and 1989, numerous credible reports by the US and international media reported that Somalia had received shipments of chemical weapons from Libya. A United Nations inspection team that visited the area in 1988 reported that the Ethiopian refugees (Ogaden) were carrying weapons supplied by the Somali Army. The settlement of Ogaden refugees in Isaaq territory, and the arming of these groups (which effectively created a foreign army in the north[60]), further antagonised local Isaaq population. Modes of transport belonging to Isaaq civilians were confiscated by force, only military transport was allowed in the city. In addition to the killings, more than 20,000 civilians were expelled from the areaa process known as ethnic cleansing. Reports from eye witnesses speak of the town of Hargeisa as mere rubble, devastated to the point that it is barely recognizable even to its inhabitants.[136]. [68], By early 1978 the Barre regime had full control of the Somali state's economic apparatus, including large amounts of foreign aid which were deployed "using selective redistribution to ensure loyalty to the regime". [152] His body was then "dumped in the town and was eaten to the waist by hyenas". [173] Most of the mines were "scattered across pastoral lands or hidden near water holes or on secondary roads and former military installations".[174]. Somalia intervention | military operation [1992-1993] | Britannica Many thousands of others are being systematically denied food because Somali forces are deliberately holding up essential supplies. UN "peacekeepers" torture a Somali child over fire "We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money," warned Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in the July/August 1995 issue of Foreign Affairs.Schlesinger had taken to the pages of the flagship journal of the Council on Foreign Relations to vindicate the dubious proposition that the United Nations . [41][pageneeded] This was in contrast to the south (ex-Italian colony) which returned a strong support for the constitution (and four times the expected vote numbers in the south, indicating electoral fraud, an example of this is a small southern village called Wanla Weyn registered a yes vote higher than the 100,000 votes counted in all of the north),[41][pageneeded][42] this was major signal of discontent coming from the north only a year after forming the union. The majority saw their houses either damaged or destroyed by the shelling. [162], Atrocities committed by the Barre's forces against Isaaqs included the strafing (i.e. [123] On the following day the curfew started earlier at 4:00pm; the third day at 2:00pm; and on the fourth day at 11:00am. The people now living in the three towns are believed to be totally non-Issaqi or military personnel who have been deputed to guard what has been retaken from the SNM.
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