in 1993 Belgian, Canadian and Italian troops were involved in the rape, torture and murder of Somali boys and gilrs while on Peacekeeping duties. This is the background to the Black Hawk Down incident (made into a film by Rdiley Scott) where Somalis shot down a Blackhawk helicopter. 18 US soldiers died compared to 1000 Somalis. The Somalis were mostly civilians who had wounds to their backs
Recent headlines about Somali Piracy have failed to mention why some fishermen were demanding money from foreign ships.. Since 1994 various European nations have been using Somali seaspace as a dumping ground for nuclear and other toxic waste. The Tsunami in 2005 washed up poisonous barrels up onto the shore which damaged the health of local Somalis, led to birth defects quite apart from kiling fish. An Italian aid agency was implicated in using "aid money" to finance the dumping which also occured on land, Some Somali fisherman with their livelihood destroyed and families injured turned to other ways of raising money and justice

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