On June 5, 1993, the United Nations peacekeepers in Mogadishu were attacked in the capital of Somalia, resulting in the instant death of 25 soldiers from Pakistan, and the next day the Security Council passed a resolution demanding that the peacekeepers use all necessary means to arrest the mastermind behind the scenes, this person is the Somali warlord "President" Farah Aideed.
The key figure in the Black Hawk fall incident that completely poked the pain point in the heart of the United States
Today I will talk to you:
What the hell is this Aideed?
Why should a small warlord dare to shame the US military
In 1934, Aideed was born in Somalia's largest Hawiyeh ethnic group, because of his family background is tough enough, after he grew up he received primary education, he joined the Italian colonial police force and became a puppet army, ambitious he was immediately appreciated by the Italian superiors, and sent him back to the Roman Military Academy for further study, after returning to China, only 25 years old Aideed, became the chief of the police, until the independence of Somalia in 1960, Aideed officially became a regular national army.
Farah - Aideed
Because the relationship between Somalia and the Soviet Union was very good at that time, he was praised by the first commander of the national army, and he was sent to the Frunze Military Academy of the Soviet Union for further study.
After Barre became the president of Somalia, he simply felt that Aideed was not loyal enough and ambition was too big, so he put him in prison, but did not expect Aideed to lie down and taste the courage like this, obediently in the prison for 6 years, during which Somalia with the assistance of the Soviet Union, achieved the nationalization of industry and farms, the national literacy rate increased wildly, and also launched an anti-pornography campaign to eliminate the traditional clan system and arrest the diehards of the clan faction.
Siad Barre
The vigorous construction of infrastructure has strengthened Somalia's sense of national identity, and most importantly, Somalia has cultivated a powerful army known as the small overlord of East Africa.
In July 1977, Somali President Barre did not ask Brezhnev to take advantage of a military coup in neighboring Ethiopia to directly send troops to attack the border between the two countries, and Ogaden intended to conquer the local Somalis. After learning the news, Polezhnev immediately issued an order for a ballet truce, but he did not expect that he was like a deaf ear, and only wanted all Somalis to gather in Somalia to live, but he did not expect that Ethiopia's new military dictator Mengetus actually changed his previous pro-American style and fell to the Soviet camp.
Brezhnev
Seeing that the relationship between the Soviet Union and Ethiopia is getting better and better day by day, Barre unilaterally announced that he broke off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in a fit of anger, since Brezhnev had to send all the military advisers originally stationed in Somalia to Ethiopia, not only that, the Soviet Union also provided Ethiopia with $1 billion in military weapons, as well as tens of thousands of powerful Cuban soldiers, and the originally confident Barre was already in the downside.
In March 1978, the gray withdrawal of troops from the Ogaden region back to Somalia, the vulnerable Barre, who was destroyed by the war, could only be used as a wall grass to fall to the United States, you must know that the benefits of the United States from ancient times to the present are not so easy to take, during which Aideed finally made a comeback, was appointed by Barre as the head of intelligence, and soon because Aideed looked like a thief, Barre was sent to India as an ambassador.
With the change in the international situation, those clan diehards imprisoned by Barre were released, taking advantage of this opportunity Aideed secretly returned to Somalia, led the military operation to prepare to take Barre, after hearing the wind, Barre immediately ran away in an armored car with tens of millions of gold and foreign currency, and even the proud national army of Somalia fled.
Barre ran in an armored car
It was Aideed, who took the Somali capital Mogadishu by force, that completely inspired the situation of the Somali civil war that continues to this day.
In 1991, President Sowari Barre's regime was overthrown by Aideed, the civil war entered the second phase, in just two years, 300,000 people died of hunger, 1.5 million people were homeless because of the war, in this context, the United Nations will send a United States-led peacekeeping force to the Somali region to maintain local order and provide humanitarian assistance to Somalis. In a war situation, radio and radio became Aideed's treasures.
On June 5, 1993, the soldiers of the peacekeeping force conducted a surprise inspection of the radio, Aideed, who did not understand the situation, thought that the peacekeeping forces wanted to destroy the radio, and directly went to war, dare to shoot at the peacekeeping forces is not asking for hardship, after the incident, the US military immediately sent Delta Special Forces and Army Rangers to the Somali capital to arrest Aideed, but did not expect that the situation in the Mogadishu area is very complicated, and it is impossible to distinguish between civilians and militants.
For a time, the invincible US military not only failed to capture Aideed, but also suffered a terrorist attack, resulting in more than 70 peacekeepers injured and 19 US soldiers captured, in order to redeem the prisoners of the US military and the remains of related soldiers. In exchange, only Aideed's assistants could be released, which was the most failed dispatch of the US military after the Vietnam War, and Aideed, known as the Somali Black Hawk, completely humiliated the US military.
In addition, the Xiao war led to a large number of Somali civilians being injured, and the United States, which was not human inside and out, was internationally condemned, and then US President Clinton had to unilaterally withdraw troops from Somalia.
In 1995, the United Nations also ordered the withdrawal of peacekeeping troops, and the always belligerent American troops seemed to be feared by the Somali warlord President Aideed. The next year, he did not go to Rwanda, and the massacre was lively, and at the same time Aideed got his wish to become the president of Somalia, which no one recognized.
The good times did not last long, and the next year due to the worldly conflict, Aideed was injured and killed, and the black eagle fell completely