President George H. W. Bush sends 28,000 American soldiers to Somalia to lead the Unified Task Force (UNITAF) protect United Nations humanitarian relief in Somalia. Somali war lords had been using the threat of starvation as a political tool, threatening UN aid workers and seizing food imports.
Year
1992
Date of Event
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