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WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, April 1, 1993
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Thieves plague Somalia
Bandits, carjackers make life difficult for relief workers
The Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia — It took just one night for thieves to swarm a bridge in Belet Huen repaired by Canadian troops. Anything not welded down was stolen.
North of Mogadishu, armed robbers took $180,000 from the International Committee of the Red Cross office, leading the agency to pull out 18 foreigners who worked there.
Bandits even raided the mess tent of the commander of the U.S. led coalition, Marine Lt. Gen. Robert Johnston, and made off with bread, kitchen utensils and containers of fruit, cereal and oatmeal.
It's all part of the latest epidemic in Somalia, thievery. The looting and robberies highlight the difficulties in trying to restore order and move ahead full steam with relief efforts.
Ironically, the main target of bandits
are the foreigners who came to help the country, ravaged by civil war and famine.
Solders, relief workers and journalists are chained at the constant vigilance required to avoid bandits who don't mind shooting and pickpockets who would be in grade school if classes were open.
Young thieves roam the two traffic bottlenecks along the busy Via Merca markets, looking for a chance to snatch a sack of grain from a truck or a pair of sunglasses from an unwary passenger.
Walking into a crowd? Be sure to take off the watch and jewelry. Watch for bump-and-run tactics or distractions. Slap the hand that just tried to slide into your front pocket.
But the expensive cameras that once vanished with great frequency from media photographers seem a bit
safer. There appears to be a market glut for photo gear.
The daily briefings by the U.S.-led coalition are filled with evidence of lawlessness in a country with the police force just starting to come back.
Belgium is trimming the size of its compound in Kismayu because security is draining resources. A group of Somalia infiltrated the area before dawn Tuesday, making off with military rations and vehicle batteries.
Later the same day, Belgian troops went to a nearby village and found three armed bandits, one of whom raised his weapon. The Belgians opened fire, killing one person and wounding one.
Carjackings also are a major threat, particularly in Mogadishu. The bodies of victims are found regularly around the capital.
Last month, a group of Somalis broke into an airfield, ripped a hole in a 25,000-gallon container of military fuel and tried to use five-gallon jugs to haul it away. Most of the fuel spilled. The Somalis were arrested, then freed.
Bosnian cease-fire in danger
The Associated Press
TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Anid scenes of panic, two children were scrapped to death and two others apparently were crushed yesterday as thousands of Muslim refugees tried to use Serb-encircled Srebrenica on U.N. trucks.
The new reports of horror in eastern Bosnia arrive one week shy of the brutal war's first anniversary. At least 134,000 people are dead or missing, and 2 million have been forced from their homes, the Bosnian government said.
Bosnian government officials charged that Srebrenica had come under renewed attack, and radio reports indicated that Serbs had set
fire to nearby villages. A cease-fire in effect across Bosnia since Sunday was in danger of collapsing.
In Sarajevo, Bosnian President Alja Izetbegovic said he signed an international peace agreement last week in New York because the costs of continued fighting were too great.
"If we'd chosen the war option, there would be enormous suffering and casualties for an extended period of time," he said. "We weren't sure we could win the military victory."
Despite the cease-fire, Belgrade Radio reported clashes along all front lines. Bosnian radio reported from Sarajevo that eight people had been killed and 13 wounded on government-held territory in the past 24
hours and that the town of Kladjan
near Tuzia was under artillery fire.
U. N. spokesperson Cmdr. Barry Frewer said U.N. vehicles came under small arms fire at Sarajevo airport and called the cease-fire very fragile at best.
Izethegovic's decision to sign the U.N. plan put the focus on Bosnian Serbs, the only hold outs. They have captured 70 percent of the republic, but the plan would give them about 43 percent of the land. Bosnia would be divided into 10 largely autonomous provinces.
the war erupted last April after Bosnia's Muslims and Croats voted for independence and the Serbs rebelled.
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