The inter-riverine breadbasket’s devastation caused famine killing 300,000

Evidence

For their part, the defeated Darod, particularly Siyad’s own Marehan clansmen, regrouped along the Juba river under one of his sons-in-law, General Morgan, notorious for his brutal suppression of the Isaq in Somaliland and accused by them of being a war criminal. As their forces moved through it, each side laid waste the agricultural region between the rivers that is Somalia’s breadbasket, killing and terrorizing the less aggressive cultivators. With agricultural and livestock production devastated, famine spread, especially in the arable riverine areas. The U.N. estimated that as many as 300,000 people perished from famine, and about a million sought refuge in Kenya, Ethiopia, Yemen, Europe, Scandinavia and North America. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 618

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to later chapters on the UN intervention and international refugee response. — connects to: Civil war devastated farmland and killed 300,000 Somalis by famine

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