Aidíd, Mohamed Farah

General Mohamed Farah Aidid, Somali: Maxamed Faarax Caydiid, English: Mohamed Farrah Aidid, 1934-1996


- Somali leader, leader of the United Somali Congress(later the Somali National Alliance), a political-military organization formed by members of the Hawiye tribe, self-proclaimed president of the Republic of Somalia from 1995-1996.


born: 15.12.1934, Somalia
d.: 1.8.1996 (from injuries)



Mohamed Farah Aidid was from the Habar Gedir(tiež Habar Gidir, Habr Gidr, ]), belonging to the Hawiye (Hawiya) tribe, which makes up about 25% of Somalia's population. The Habar Gedir clan originates from the Mudug region of Somalia, where the dry and hot desert conditions allow only the strongest to survive. The main influence of the Hawiye tribe is in central and southern Somalia.


He studied in Rome and in Moscow. He spent the late 1960s and early 1970s in prison, when heď was sentenced to six years for plotting a coup against President Barre. But he was subsequently Barré acquitted and appointed Somali ambassador to India, Sri Lanka and Singapore. In addition to his service in the Somali army and diplomatic assignments, Aidid also achieved a high position in the government of Somali President Siad Barré and became the head of his secret service. For the favours shown, Aidid Barré retaliated by founding the United Somali Congress
United Somali Congress, a politico-military organisation whose members were mainly members of his tribe and clan, with which he overthrew his government in January 1991.


This čo was originally intended to contributeť to the development of the country but paradoxically contributed to its disintegration. The president of Somalia was [url=/topic/view/46630/]Ali Mahdi Mohamed, Aidid's associate in the United Somali Congress, who additionally disallowed the June 1991 vote in the United Somali Congress, where Aidid won two-thirds of the vote. On the contrary, in October 1991, Ali Mahdi formed his own government, supported by Italy, which consisted of 8 ministers. This set off bloody inter-clan power struggles that gradually engulfed the whole country. In addition to Aidid and Mahdi, former President Barré and his cronies and other local clan and tribal leaders took part in the fighting. The country was gradually disintegrating, and there was lawlessness and a humanitarian catastrophe. The unfavourable humanitarian situation in the country forced the UN to send peacekeepers to the country, which were joined by US troops in December 1992.


General Mohamed Farah Aidid sensed his čtime. He was not afraid of the U.N. troops and už nor of the American ones. In June, when Pakistani soldiers in UN blue helmets inspected an arms depot, they became the target of a major attack. Several lost their lives. The Americans responded immediately. Knowing that General Aidid was behind the ambush, they decided to arrest him. They offered a reward of $25,000 for information leading to his capture. From June to October, however, they were unsuccessful.


On the basis of intelligence information, ďanother action to capture General Aidid took place on 03.10.1993 - General Aidid was supposed to be hidingť in the Olympia Hotel in Mogadishu. A special force consisting of Rangers and Delta Force was deployed to capture him. The operation ended in a fiasco, killing 19 Americans and about 1,000 Somalis, and was one of the reasons why the U.S. eventually withdrew from Somalia.


In 1995, the remaining UN forces also withdrew and General Aidid declared himself president of all of Somalia, but his government was not internationally recognised and the country was embroiled in an endless civil war. During one of the armed clashes between the rival factions in late July 1996, General Aidid was ť ž wounded (by three bullets) and died of his wounds on 01.08.1996 (some internet sources also give the date of death as 2.08.1996).


Mohamed Aidid had 5 children. The eldest son Hussein Mohamed Farah emigrated to the USA at the age of 14, where he became a naturalized American, a member of the US Marine Corps. After the death of his father in August 1996, he was appointed by his tribe as his successor and President of the Republic of Somalia. In addition to Farrah's mother, Aidid had two other wives (three according to some sources) - he has three daughters and one son (Sadia, Raisa, Amina, Garad) with his third wife Khadijah Gurhan.



Zdroj:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Farrah_Aidid
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9608/02/aideed/
www.comebackalive.com
http://encyk.sme.sk/clanok.asp?cl=893978
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