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Article: Rehab Work Urged for GIs In Somalia; Relief Workers Want Troops To Help Build
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- December 2, 1992
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Relief workers and U.N. military officers here said today that
any U.S. troops sent to Somalia to help feed the starving would be
unlikely to encounter an active civil war and should extend their
role beyond guarding food convoys to road-building and other
humanitarian tasks.
Relief workers here are in wide agreement that the effort to
feed 2 million or more starving Somalis has reached an impasse, and
that military intervention will likely help speed the flow of
supplies. At the moment, they said, the key ports of Mogadishu and
Kismaayo are blocked due to factional rivalries, intimidation of
relief workers and unbridled looting. And hundreds of Somalis are
dying each day despite a ...