Human Tide Of Misery Flees The Anarchy Of Somalia - The Independent »
Posted By dissent 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
As the world follows the escapades of the country's pirates, civilians are fleeing the anarchy on land, creating the world's biggest refugee camp.
These people are proof of the human cost of the accelerating collapse of Somalia, yet their fate attracts nothing like the global interest that surrounds Somali piracy and its threat to commerce. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) that runs Dadaab urgently needs new money from international donors and new land from the Kenyan government. Neither has been forthcoming. The annual budget for this camp is $19m (£13m) – roughly half the annual operational cost of a single warship patrolling the Indian Ocean in search of modern-day Blackbeards.
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we live in a culture of war.
let's make it a culture of peace.
"my country is the world. and my religion is to ...
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dissent7 months, 2 weeks ago
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while we congratulate ourselves on the easy killings of three teenage pirates in a lifeboat tied to a destroyer surrounded by an armada of naval ships from around the world the real drama going on inside somalia is a much bigger and more desperate story. one which we have played a very large hand in creating
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Natureboy7 months, 2 weeks ago
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http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3909
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Check it out.
Somalia's tragedy in a nutshell -
The USA pumped 50 million a year in aid and arms into Somalia to prop up a corrupt and unpopular dictator (it was a cold war thing, to mess with the USSR.)
Eventually, the central government folded anyway, leaving only various militias and warlords armed to the teeth both with US weapons, and the weapons the USSR had supplied to the other side.
US and Soviet meddling having reduced Somalia to complete chaos, we stepped back and said "Whoa, check out those primitive MFers."
In its way, not much different from the Iraq or Afghanistan treatment. Bomb a third world country back to the stone age, then point at the conduct of the survivors and conclude that they are too primitive, tribal, etc to govern themselves without our help. -
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cheif7 months, 2 weeks ago
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Why not get the required dollars from the pirates? They brag about gettint $100. million in the last few months...not like they can't buy what they want - or maybe ask Mugabe for help - or maybe someone go over there, claim to be king (like Michel Jackson or Prince), teach them how to grow food, take away their guns and
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it'll all be done...
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