The Failure Of The Somalia Civil War

Until 1991, Somalia was run by the long-time dictator Siad Barre until he was ordered out of the country. His replacement was Mohamed Farah Aidid who overused his power and led the impoverished country into violence and famine. During 1991 alone, over 300,000 Somalis died of starvation during this year of civil war. A year later, the United Nations operation to oversee a peace fire agreement in Somalia was approved and in July, fifty unarmed U.N. military personnel were deployed. This proved to fail, because when the U.N. would send in their food and relief for the starving Somali, the food and items were looted by Aidid’s men. Soon, the U.N. turned to American president George H. W. Bush who responded to these actions by deploying 25,000 US