Believe me it's soo much worse than that. They would just gun people at random. Gunning down unarmed people and people praying in-front of tea stand and gunning down dugsi kid's is not exactly defending themselves against violent hordes of Somalis
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Even goings so far as lobbing anti-tank missiles from helicopter gunships into a hospital and then claim it never happened despite everyone seeing it ..incredible. There is no use denying it either when there is footage as well.
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So when you hear the guy in the trailer say he was happy that the helicopters came down as
@Midas pointed out, it was because American Black Hawk pilots consistently made deliberate effort to antagonize Somalis and even assaulted an Associated Press photographer who tried to document it.
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Most Somalis don't realize , a lot of the destruction in buildings, houses and even looting was done by US and UN forces. Even the church in Xamar etc were destroyed by them and not even Somali University staff and relatives were safe from their imperious conduct. Aside from the shelling that happened in 2006.
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But yeah it there is soo much stuff they did, thats just nuts to read about. I don't see how anyone can ever think they were there for humanitarian peacekeeping reasons.
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Also you don't even have to wonder it's 100% due to the American/UN involvement, every region and insurgent group in Somalia had peacebrokers that could settle things and stabilize it after some time like how it happened in Somaliland/Puntland. Even the USC or manifesto group had a moderate faction within it. Usually it was the local traditional elders in connection/cooperation with the moderates and religious leaders. It's also crucial for inter regional reconciliation between families.
What the Americans did was dismantle that by butchering them and it made people rally behind Aidid against them for a moment. In a way that is similar to ICU dismantlement in 2006 when you think about it and people rallied behind AS which was a tiny irrelevant youth group before it.
What
@El Nino said is right though Somalis would have been supportive otherwise.
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They single-handedly were responsible for increasing the general instability across the southern part of the country and pro-longing a conflict that would have resolved itself from within.
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The humanitarian garb of the mission was complete nonsense as well, they came at the end of the crisis/famine when there was decline in human mortality. They just came to butcher, harass and turn Somalia into their favorite playing ground and didn't save anyone.
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