Friday, December 16, 2011
UN-Backed Invasion Of Somalia Spirals Into Chaos -- The IndependentIn a rare dispatch from the badlands of Southern Somalia, Daniel Howden sees how Kenya's war has made things worse.
The famine camps with their domed shelters made of rags and sticks are now surrounded by fields of green. The survivors sit among the clouds of flies and mosquitoes watching the planting season pass them by, living on handouts. The drought in southern Somalia is over but no one is going home.
People who have endured civil war, oppression under a brutal religious sect and starvation now find themselves caught between the lines of a border conflict that is entering a new and dangerous phase.
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My Comment: Little if any proper long-term planning. Limited resources with no money. A local population that does not care about its future. No leadership. This UN sponsored invasion .... and much more .... is becoming the poster child on how the UN should not intervene in conflicts. Read it all .... and weep for Somalia.
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