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BASED ON AN ACTUAL EVENT
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Plato
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SOMALIA - EAST AFRICA
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1992
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Years of warfare among rival clans causes famine on a biblical scale.
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300,000 civilians die of starvation.
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Mohamed Farrah Aidid, the most powerful of the warlords, rules the capital Mogadishu.
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He seizes international food shipments at the ports. Hunger is his weapon.
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The world responds. Behind a force of 20,000 U.S. Marines, food is delivered and order is restored.
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April 1993
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Aidid waits until the Marines withdraw, and then declares war on the remaining U.N. peacekeepers.
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In June, Aidid's militia ambush and slaughter 24 Pakistani soldiers, and begin targeting American personnel.
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