
	Where results make sense

Topic: Somalia Affair

Related Topics

Shidane Arone

Clayton Matchee

Operation Medak pocket

Desmond Morton (historian)

Canadian special forces

David Collenette

Republic of Serbian Krajina

Operation Storm

Brazilian Expeditionary Force

Military of Portugal

United States Marine Corps

Ante Gotovina

Yugoslav wars

Cree

In the News (Tue 7 Oct 08)

Breast Cancer

Golden Circle

Keating Five

Stephen Harper

Eli Lilly

Nobel Prize

Eli Manning

Josh Beckett

Sage Rosenfels

South Ossetia

	Somalia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Somalia (Somali: Soomaaliya; Arabic: الصومال, As-Suumaal), formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a coastal nation at the Horn of Africa in East Africa.
		Somalia is located on the east coast of Africa on and north of the Equator between the Gulf of Aden on the north and Indian Ocean on the east.
		Somalia continues to have one of the highest child mortality rates in the world, with 10% of children dying at birth and 25% of those surviving birth dying before age five.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Somalia (3047 words)

	Somalia Affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The affair led to the disbanding of Canada's elite Canadian Airborne Regiment, greatly damaged the morale of the Canadian Forces, and damaged both the domestic and international reputation of Canadian soldiers.
		While it is difficult to separate the effects of the affair on Canadian Forces morale from those of the concurrent defence spending cut, it did exacerbate feelings of distrust towards the media and politicians among many CF members.
		In the aftermath of the Somalia affair, video of brutal hazing rituals in the Airborne Regiment had been met with public outrage and disgust when they were made public.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Somalia_Affair (2587 words)

	Rendezvous at Parliament Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Care and sound informed judgment should be exercised by the international community to examine and establish the facts on the ground in the country, and not to be misled by the media campaigns and official statements.
		of the land surface and one-fourth of the population of the Republic of Somalia.
		Puntland State of Somalia is an integral part of the Somali Republic and strongly stands for the preservation of the unity, integrity and sovereignty of Somalia.
	www.somaliawatch.org /archiveoct00/001106603.htm (2745 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Somalia
		Somalia is a war-torn, drought-ridden land, and one of the world's poorest and least developed countries.
		Somalia was engaged in civil war, with no internationally recognized government, from 1991 until 2005, and even now is ruled for the most part by warlords.
		Since the seventh century, Somalia has been a centre of trade because of its location on the Horn of Africa, where the Red Sea becomes the Gulf of Aden and meets the Indian Ocean.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/somalia (837 words)

	Nazret.com EthioBlog - No Ethiopian troops for Somalia
		Somalia has not had an effective national government in 15 years.
		The question of foreign peacekeepers is one of the key issues set to be discussed when the Islamists and the government hold talks on 15 July in Sudan.
		Ethiopia and Somalia fought a border war in the 1970s, which Ethiopia won.
	nazret.com /blog/index.php?title=no_ethiopian_troops_for_somalia&... (384 words)

	Major-general (retired) lewis mackenzie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Though he knew of a mounting crisis that could possibly have compromised the participation of the CAR in the Somalia mission, MGen MacKenzie failed to take adequate corrective measures to initially prevent the crisis and, subsequently, measures to resolve it satisfactorily.
		While his military duty was to ensure the operational readiness of the CAR and the CARBG for the Somalia mission, MGen MacKenzie, as Commander of LFCA, due to competing demands on his time and energy, failed to demonstrate the requisite attention, care, and leadership expected of him under such circumstances.
		Failure to ensure that all Land Force Central Area personnel in the Canadian Joint Force Somalia were adequately trained and tested in the Law of War or the Law of Armed Conflict including the four 1949 Geneva Conventions for the protection of victims of armed conflict.
	www.dnd.ca /somalia/vol4/v4c31e.htm (2557 words)

	Canada's "Somali Scandal"
		Canada's ugly antecedent is known as the Somalia affair: the 1993 torture and murder of a Somali teenager by Canadian airborne soldiers, and the culture of racism and brutality in the ranks that it exposed.
		The Somalia revelations during 1994 and 1995 anguished the nation and traumatized the Canadian military.
		In the view of several analysts, the stain of racism that the Somalia affair has left on the airborne has been motivated by military critics and fueled by the media.
	www.netnomad.com /canada.html (861 words)

	GEESKA AFRIKA ONLINE: Nur Kafi's Column on the Eye of the Horn of African Affairs
		The President and the Speaker are unable to agree not only on the issue of relocation, but several other contentious issues.The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia has held consultations with Egyptian and Ethiopian authorities, and with heads of the African Union and the League of Arab States, in a bid to end the stalemate.
		Ethiopia has championed the cause of its proxies in Somalia, but the current internal divisions, added to a potentially devastating war with its old enemy Eritrea with troops massing on either side of the border, getting involved in the affairs of Somalia at this point would be costly yet would bring very limited returns.
		If Yemen maintains a position of non-intervention in the affair of Somalia, it unwittingly gives a vote for the continuation of chaos, increase destabilization and an inevitable encouragement of terrorism.
	www.geeskaafrika.com /somalia_3dec05.htm (1349 words)

	Amazon.ca: Dark Threats and White Knights : The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism: Books: Sherene ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Yet she is careful, at most times, to bear in mind the influence, among soldiers, of class as well as of race, in the election of such allegiances and the expression of such passions.
		Somalia was referred to as “Indian country”-a trope arguably drawn from the repertoire of U.S. historical experience more than from Canadian, despite the massive derelictions of which Canada remains guilty in respect to aboriginal peoples.
		The first reports of what became known in Canada as the Somalia Affair challenged national claims to a special expertise in peacekeeping and to a society free of racism.
	amazon.ca /Dark-Threats-Knights-Peacekeeping-Imperialism/dp/0802086632 (1295 words)

	Sidesteppint the Issue: Report of the Somalia Inquiry - Sean Henry
		The report of the Somalia Commission is one more example of the Canadian predilection to avoid confronting fundamental problems.
		The causes of the Somalia affair go back some thirty years, and reflect government neglect of defence policy and the armed forces.
		Responsibility for individual dereliction of duty in the Somalia case must be borne by individuals where appropriate.
	www.cda-cdai.ca /library/sidestep.htm (801 words)

	Canada's Shreddergates — the cover-ups explode [Free Republic]
		The first involved a scandal in which contaminated blood was supplied to thousands of unsuspecting recipients who later contracted either HIV of hepatitis C. In the second case, civilian and military officials tried to hush up the killing of a Somali youth during a peacekeeping operation in that country.
		One of the soldiers convicted for his part in the killing was found hanging in a cell and was therefore unfit to stand trial because of the subsequent brain damage.
		In late 1993 public affairs officers arranged to give a journalist some briefing notes about the incident on an informal basis but the notes were altered beforehand.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b0828a569a8.htm (1315 words)

	The Republic :: Book of Revelation
		It's unlikely that the Regiment's members were familiar with Somalia's history and current situation; it's even less likely that they understood the effects of colonialism, the slave trade, the Cold War, IMF and World Bank reforms, and corporate plunder on Africa's social, economic, political, cultural, and ecological well-being.
		The Somalia militia had long before left the area, which was afterwards populated primarily by starving refugees.
		A public inquiry was held into the "Somalia Affair," but it was terminated prematurely by the Liberal government in 1997.
	www.republic-news.org /archive/122-repub/122_nenonen.htm (1500 words)

	Somalia Somaliland on the Internet
		The printed report, "Dishonoured Legacy: The Lessons of the Somalia Affair" is published and sold at a cost of $125.00 (5 volumes + summary) by the Canada Communications Group, at 45 Sacré-Coeur Boulevard, Hull, Quebec, K1A 0S7.
		Has her biography, a video of Iman's visit to Somalia with the ICRC (Red Cross) during the famine, (her first visit in 20 years), meeting her uncle in Baidoa, visiting Mogadishu, etc. includes a diary of her visit and a conversation with Sudanese model, Alek Wek.
		Country Reports for Somalia, photographs for purchase (free to non-profits and non sectarian orgs.), an audio file of "That's When I Realized This Is Real" - Weris Jama, from Somalia, talks about her experience being forced to flee Somalia in 1990.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/somalia.html (6462 words)

	Camel Milk Threads: Puntland Oil & Mining Deal: The Offspring of an Affair btw Greed and Incompetence 'I' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I mean by this, their worst nightmare is to live to a moment of central adminstration where they will be held responsible for significant projects of national undertaking.
		The agreement is so unfavorable to Somalia that oil and gas industry experts were bewildered when its news was announced late last year.
		âSomalia had issued a number of concessions and prospecting licenses to a number of international oil companies in the 80s when Hunt Oil discovered oil in Yemen that protruded into Somalia.
	www.somaliaonline.com /ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=9;t=005748 (3330 words)

	Essay 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The conditions were extreme, security breaches, working under tremendous heat conditions, as some Somalis threw stones while soldiers worked; distinguishing hostile act and none was an instinctive reaction to self-protection or forces to impose peace in which caused implication that encompassed the Rules of Engagement (ROE), which soon shifted during there deployment.
		The CF were greatly overextended by the peacekeeping missions in Cambodia and Bosnia; therefore promises made by politicians in Ottawa left little choice to send the ill-disciplined regiment to Somalia.
		The outcome of the Somali affair indicates that careerism inspired the cover-up of serious negligent and even criminal, misconduct, unfortunately at the cost of people's careers and the disbandment of the Airborne Regiment.
	www.friends-amis.org /essay5_e.html (1297 words)

	Executive summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It also traces the outline of what we were originally asked to investigate but were unable to complete due to the truncation of our work.
		There is an obvious public interest in discovering the answers to questions about the Somalia affair that remain unexplored.
		We continue to believe that important facts concerning the deployment and its aftermath are not yet known or remain obscure.
	www.dnd.ca /site/Reports/somalia/vol0/V0S24_e.asp (1017 words)

	TheHistoryNet Discussion Forums: The XYZ Affair and the U.S. Naval Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		With perfect hindsight, the XYZ Affair and resultant US Actions were never intended to position the US as a world power and did not contribute to America's understanding of its role as a present or future power.
		certainly the affair acted as a catalyst to action, actions that were revenge and retribution minded.
		The XYZ Affair led to the American realization that in order to trade globally, and protect her merchant fleet, a strong U.S. Navy was the first requirement.
	historynet.zeroforum.com /zerothread?id=48 (6214 words)

	Professionalism Under Fire: Canadian Implementation of the Medak Pocket Agreement, Croatia 199
		For many Canadians, the Somalia Affair became a symbol of their armed forces in the 1990's.
		The strong presence of Somalia in the national collective memory is perhaps partly a result of the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Canadian deployment to East Africa, revealingly titled Dishonoured Legacy: The Lessons of the Somalia Affair.
		Dishonoured Legacy is especially influential as an historical text since it passes criticism of the Somalia operation to all of Canada’s military institutions based on an admittedly incomplete investigation of criminal activity and cover-up during the mission of one battlegroup on a foreign deployment.
	www.cda-cdai.ca /library/medakpocket2.htm (5946 words)

	DIRIYE'S HOMEPAGE
		GR1333 (Reference Book) This book is essentially a look at the culture and history of Somalis of the Horn of Africa across Somaliland, Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya.
		This is essentially a grammar of the Somali language presented in an easy and comprehensive way for the non-native speaker; nevertheless, linguists would find many useful items about the phonology, the morphology and the syntax of Somali.
		Additionally, it has a chapter on daily conversions useful to those visiting a Somali-speaking area in Somaliland (the northern regions that stepped back from the union with Somalia in 1991), Somalia, Northern Kenya, Eastern Ethiopia and Djibouti.
	us.geocities.com /mdiriye/diriye.html (1085 words)

	Significant Incident : Canada's Army, the Airborne, and the Murder in Somalia - PowerBookSearch!
		The dreadful torture and murder of a teenager in Somalia was significant precisely because it showed how badly morale and discipline have deteriorated in Canada’s army.
		He draws on historical sources, leaked documents, material submitted to the Commission of Inquiry into the Somalia Affair, and on scores of exclusive interviews.
		It is against this multifaceted background that the deterioration of a proud regiment, the Canadian Airborne, and its ill-fated mission to Somalia begins to make sense.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch077101113X.html (388 words)

	Flit
		I've liked Gregg Easterbrook a lot, for years, but his recurring stint at Tuesday Morning Quarterback, and the playing to the masses that involves, is beginning to drag down his sense for nuance and accuracy in his writing.
		In 1993, a Canadian commando unit in Somalia tortured a civilian to death.
		I only wish American military justice, or Canadian civilian justice for that matter, could always be as harshly fair as Canadian soldiers were to their own in the Somalia affair.
	www.snappingturtle.net /flit/archives/2003_09_03.html (1868 words)

	Dishonoured Legacy: The Lessons of the Somalia Affairs. Final Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Deployment ...
		The five-volume report titled Dishonoured Legacy: The Lessons of the Somalia Affair is likely the most comprehensive assessment of the Canadian Forces ever undertaken.
		It also contains considerable narrative detail and analysis of the decisions leading up to the Somalia mission and the events of March 4, 1993 when one Somali civilian was killed and another was wounded.
		The Somalia Experience in Strategic Perspective: Implications for the Military in a Free and Democratic Society
	www.fedpubs.com /subject/govern/somal.htm (343 words)

	The MOUT Homepage
		Somalia Vignettes - short first-hand accounts of the Blackhawk Down - TF Ranger battle in Mogadishu.
		These are "snapshot" accounts of the operation and are best read after either reading Mark Bowden's book, the Blackhawk Down Internet site or you already have an understanding of the operation and its objectives.
		Presidential Address to the Nation on the Situation in Somalia (4 December 1992)
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/6453/somalia.html (570 words)

	The Canadian Airborne Regiment
		Significant incident : Canada's army, the Airborne, and the murder in Somalia.
		Loomis, Dan G. The Somalia affair : reflections on peacemaking and peacekeeping.
		The Canadian airborne regiment in Somalia : a socio-cultural inquiry: a study.
	www.regiments.org /regiments/na-canada/specfor/CAR.htm (362 words)

	Rwandan Politics
		Articles on Somalia politics (including Somalia-related events in the U.S.), statements from organizations such as the Somali Intellectual Forum, Mogadishu, Somalia.
		The Council on Foreign Relations is a nonpartisan organization which conducts research and publishes Foreign Affairs magazine.
		It is a joint program of the Geneva-based United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and the Programme for Strategic and International Security Studies, PSIS of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.
	www.empereur.com /nations/somalia/somaliainfo.html (5271 words)

	Somalia in Books on 43 Folders Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea (Vintage Departures)
		Unraveling Somalia: Race, Violence, and the Legacy of Slavery (Ethnography of Political Violence)
		Somalia: State Collapse, Multilateral Intervention, and Strategies for Political Reconstruction (Brookings Occasional Papers)
	store.43folders.com /books-4797-Somalia (236 words)

	Amazon.com: Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism: Books: Sherene ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism (Paperback)
		I still think today as yesterday that the color line is a great problem of this century.
		Somalia Affair, Belet Huen, New World Order, United States, Shidane Arone, Airborne Regiment, Sergeant Boland, Major Seward, B'nai Brith, Captain Sox, First World, United Nations, Canadian Airborne, Canadian Armed Forces, Kyle Brown, Lieutenant Colonel Mathieu, Captain Rainville, Private Brocklebank, Private Brown, Urban Alliance, Gulf War, Operation Deliverance, Black American, Clayton Matchee, Commissioner Desbarats
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802086632?v=glance (564 words)

	Table of contents for The effort to save Somalia, August 1992-March 1994
		Table of contents for The effort to save Somalia, August 1992-March 1994 / Walter S. Poole.
		Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog.
		15 Defining a Mission 21 Coalition Forces Enter Somalia 23 Setting Limits on the US Role 26 Accomplishing the Transition 32 A Mixed Appraisal 36 Chapter 3.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip0514/2005017310.html (192 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)