why the international community is ignoring the Somali plight?
414276
There was a time when the US did intervene in the Somali tragedy, and had done some amazing things helping people. However, the war lords who caused the problem were unwilling to have the people freed from their oppression and they assassinated a large number of peace keeping soldiers from Pakistan, also a Muslim nation. Then, in an effort to create order, eight American servicemen were murdered. In all this, the Somali people continued to tolerate the war lords and did nothing to try to aid the outside help from the US and the world.\n\nThe Somali people have betrayed those who would have helped them more than enough. It is not that the world will not help the Somali people, but the Somali people will do nothing to allow others to help them.
653902
No one seems to have a policy, that's why so many people are suffering.\n\nTo top it all off the UN has announced it will be cutting aid to the region - that'll really help!
210895
AIDS is contributing to the underdevelopment of the entire African continent.  There is no good reason for the US to withdrawl funding to fight it.  It is morally reprehensible to ignore the problem and from a more pragmatic view the problems in Africa will hurt America in the long run.  Disease has destabilized much of Africa and led to wars, racial tension, and genocide.  This is a world problem, not just Africa's.
825439
I don't agree on any country turning their backs on another holocaust (that is what is happening in Darfur). As the most powerful nations we owe it to help these people get out of the suffering and torture. If we turn our heads away we are no different than those who torture because we see it and did nothing. We cannot afford to do nothing and say we are fighting for peace and stabilization in Iraq.
1062535
They never said they will help us. The said they will attack us but certainly not help us. Al qaeda has connections to the gurus that took over Somalia, they are fighting us in Iraq and Afghanistan. Check a news site or something.
1103820
The CIA has been supporting the war Lords.\n\nThe subject of Somalia is a difficult one. Who is to be put in power? Talk about a lawless country.\n\n I suspect the War Lords that have just taken over Mogadishu will gain (gained) the support of the people (as the Taliban did in Afghanistan) on the promise of bringing order(as the Taliban did).\n\nI also suspect that they will turn into an oppressive regime.  They all want to turn Somalia into an Islamic State and the U.S. is concerned that it will turn into a safe haven for Al Qaeda members.\n\nI don't know if the U.S. should? It's like six in one hand and half dozen in the other.\n\nSudan on the other hand is definitely a place I support sending our troops. Uganda as well.
1117831
Are you kidding?  would you like to have your life run by Somalis? or anyone from the middle east?  c'mon have some sense.. .when the UN has countries like Syria on the human rights committee, we don't need a world government....
80372
I care very deeply about this horrible situation--and follow it very closely.  Have you been following Nicholas Kristof's articles about the Genocide in the New York Times?  He writes about it regularly and has been trying to get the US government and the "bully pulpit" people like Bill O'Reilly to draw attention to Darfur.  He has even set up a collection to pay for Bill O'Reilly's trip to Darfur to raise the public's attention.  So far, O'Reilly has refused--saying he has "other commitments" (what commitments could be more important?)  If you get a chance look at www.nytimes.com and see if you can access the articles/video on Darfur.
64182
The US's acts of terrorism are covert...we conduct terrorism all over the world and then deny that we did anything.  \n\nWe shouldn't be involved in the middle east like we are, but America does what it wants in the name of protecting Americans and protecting those in the world that need our help...kinda makes you wonder why we do nothing in Somalia...and why we didn't bother entering WW2 until we were attacked...
309687
Good on you for being there for the people that might not have the strength to be there for themselves. Of course it´s easier to help if the issue of concern is close to you but I do hope that people of "the West" don´t forget about the rest of the world and how much we ca do there. That shit about God´s punishment just make me angry. I´m doing my bit - I´m most probably heading to Africa in a year to help with this issue.
1173569
Nothing new, the "internaional community"  can ignore the weeks of shelling by the Israeli army of Gaza, the firing of hundreds of missiles into the crowded Strip that have destroyed Palestinian lives and property, while spreading terror among the civilian population and deepening the psychological trauma suffered by a generation of children. They can ignore the deaths of more than 30 civilians, and dozens of horrific injuries, in the past few weeks at the hands of the Israeli military, including three children hit in a botched air strike last week, and a heavily pregnant woman and her doctor brother killed a day later as a missile slammed into the room where they were eating dinner.\nThey can ignore the blockade of Gaza's "borders" by the Israeli army for months on end, which has prevented Palestinians in the Strip from trading goods at crossing points with Israel and from receiving vital supplies of food and medicines. As a captive population besieged by Israeli soldiers, Gazans are facing a humanitarian catastrophe sanctioned by Israeli government policy and implemented by the Israeli army. They can ignore Israel's bullying of the international community to connive in the starving of the Hamas-led government of funds and diplomatic room for manoeuvre, thereby preventing the elected Palestinian leadership from running Gaza. So desperate is the situation there that Hamas officials are being forced to smuggle in millions of dollars of cash stuffed in suitcases to pay salaries. And finally They can ignore the violation of Palestinian territory by Israeli commandos who infiltrated Gaza a day before the Palestinian attack to kidnap two Palestinians Israel claims are terrorists. They have been "disappeared", doubtless to be be held in administrative detention, where they can denied access to lawyers, the courts and, of course, justice. This attack in Israel, they tell us, is the most serious to date, with the implication that it is therefore illegitimate and part of the same "escalation". Even ignoring the fact that this attack was against Israeli soldiers besieging, imprisoning and shelling the Palestinians of Gaza, does the "international community" not to pause to consider the double standard it is applying? Was the Israeli army's incursion into Gaza a day earlier to capture two alleged Palestinian militants not an equal escalation? Was it not an equal violation of Palestinian sovereignty? Of course not. The "international community" knows, as do the rest of us, that the army never really left Gaza and the occupation never really ended. But you won't hear that from any of its reporters.
1080348
because immigrants from Somalia are usualy impoverished
448872
Your list of countries is not complete. Majority of teh countries are themselves prey of poverty and hunger. First try to remove them than think about UNO Security Council
38678
I'm afraid that the majority of people do not know anything about this terrible conflict. (sad but true) The average person is interested only in the things that surround and impact their own lives. I really wish people would stretch themselves enough to learn about what is happening in our world - and this ongoing conflict regarding the future of Kashmir is an enormous problem. What began as a political controversy has gradually evolved to be about ethnicity and religious differences. This has resulted in a dangerous, impossible environment of intolernace, intimidation, and violence. What I feel most sad about is the fact that so many children are suffering. They have become orphans and are living destitute lives...and even if they had the blessing of caring adults, most likely those adults need psychiatric help (due to the huge growth in post-traumatic stress in the region) and are destitute themselves. Basically, no person is receiving the help they need. It's a tragic situation.
219701
The U.N. has got to step in and protect the people of Darfur.\n\nIt is just unacceptable what is going on with the slaughter of   innocent civilians.
790875
Except for the small detail of the army that's perpetrating that genocide, yes.  The problem is that malnourished people without weapons cannot overtake a governmental army.  It also doesn't help that the African Union is doing nothing to help the situation there.  They have 7,000 troops (who don't do anything) to patrol an area the size of France.
231170
ethnic divisions: somalia is a country divided by two big "religions", not believers, and cristianism, which are the people with more money.\nNatural disasters: poberty, AIDS, flood and the droughts.\nliteracy rate: 1%.\nhelth problems: Aids, hungry and all that ones that are transmmited\nand the last: tourist should be careful of the confrontaionjs of both religions\n\nAltough I do this for help, 10 points wont be bad for me =)