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- From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 04:11 PST
- Subject: URGENT! Somalia News Update, No 37
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- From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse>
- Subject: URGENT! Somalia News Update, No 37
-
- /* Written 4:08 am Nov 20, 1992 by dmorse@igc.apc.org in igc:soc.cult.afric */
- /* ---------- "URGENT! Somalia News Update, No 37" ---------- */
- From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse>
- Subject: URGENT! Somalia News Update, No 37
-
- Bernhard Helander has again set up a way to fax the White House free
- of charge on the Somalian crisis. Details below. Pardon repeat of my
- earlier urgent action message that begins this post--I left it i *just in case*
- someone might have missed the earlier post and not know what the faxing
- was for.
-
- /* Written 1:47 am Nov 20, 1992 by AFRICA-L@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU in igc:bitl.africa */
- /* ---------- "URGENT! Somalia News Update, No 37" ---------- */
- From: Bernhard Helander <antbh@STRIX.UDAC.UU.SE>
-
- U R G E N T ! U R G E N T ! U R G E N T ! U R G E N T !
-
- ____________________________________________________________________
- S O M A L I A N E W S U P D A T E
- ____________________________________________________________________
- No 37 November 20, 1992. ISSN 1103-1999
- ____________________________________________________________________
- Somalia News Update is published irregularly via electronic mail and
- fax. Questions can be directed to antbh@strix.udac.uu.se or to fax
- number +46-18-151160. All material is free too quote as long as the
- source is stated.
- ____________________________________________________________________
-
- In this issue: URGENT PRESSURE NEEDED
- FREE FAX
- SNA/USC LEADER AYDIID: THE SAVIMBI OF SOMALIA?
-
-
- URGENT PRESSURE NEEDED
- By Dorothy Morse <dmorse@IGC.APC.ORG>
-
- (November 19) MacNeil/Lehrer said tonight the White House will
- discuss serious action for Somalia tomorrow.
-
- Please call the White House Comment Line--202-456-1111, between 9am
- and 5pm Eastern time, tomorrow.
- Or fax any time (starting tonight) at 202-456-2461.
-
- Please urge massive increases in food aid and medical supplies.
- Remember, even Mohamed Sahnoun said things were getting better since
- the aid increased, despite the looting. And, he said the amount now
- being delivered is 30,000 tons a month. 60,000 tons a month are
- needed, so there is plenty of room for improvement there.
- The main topic of discussion will be military intervention. I plan
- to urge increased UN troops, deployed swiftly. I think that insofar
- as outside military force can cause some problems, UN troops are less
- provocative than US marines.
- On the M/L News Hour, the former US Ambassador to Somalia, Crigler,
- said "the American people have shown that they favor helping Somalia."
- It's important that we continue to show this support.
- Hope everybody will take the time to make the quick phone call or
- send a one-paragraph fax.
- Thanks so much. Events seem to have shown that the online
- community has made a big difference for Somalia--I hope we can act in
- great numbers tomorrow and perhaps get some really helpful action out
- of the White House.
- ------------------------------------
- FREE FAX
-
- SNU NOTE: Electronic mail recipients can send FREE FAX via the Swedish
- University Net (SUNET) addressing their mail as follows:
-
- White_House@f0091202-456-2461.fax.sunet.se
-
- This will be treated by your server as ordinary mail and peacenet
- users therefore need not prefix their mail by the ordinary fax
- command. The fax server uatomatically places long messages in waiting
- line and deals with shorter messages first. Upon delivery senders get
- a receipt from the gateway.
-
- ------------------------------------
-
-
- SNA/USC LEADER AYDIID: THE SAVIMBI OF SOMALIA?
-
- (SNU, Uppsala, November 19). In a statment issued by the SNA/USC
- chairman Mohamed Farah Aydiid in Mogadishu November 14, Aydiid spells
- out his position regarding the recent shooting at the airport and
- attack on the aid workers at Gesira beach.
- He explains that the "occupation of the airport by UN troops" has
- not been "authorized by the USC or SNA authorities". He claims that
- the deal struck between UNOSOM office and a USC secrutity officer is
- invalid as it has not respected USC/SNA chain of command. He goes on
- to claim that "the unilateral decision by Ambassador Kittani [to take
- control of the airport] was unnecessary". He adds that the UN presence
- in the airport "jeopardizes the humanitarian assistance in Somalia and
- is a threat to the peace and stability in Somalia".
- In an appended but unsigned 12-point declaration, UN and NGO staff
- are accused of acting more as tourist in the country than as
- professional relief workers. It is also said that the world should
- send food directly to Aydiid rather than through the UN. The
- declaration claims that UN have instigated the recent clashes between
- the constituent members of the SNA alliance. This apparently refers to
- the recent fighting between the Somali Patriotic Movement (SPM) based
- in the Ogden clan and Aydiid's United Somali congress.
- ____________________________________________________________________
- Posted by Bernhard Helander in Uppsala, Sweden.
-
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