Sun, Aug 17, 2003 - Page 7 News List

Somalia's shadow looms over Monrovia

BAD MEMORIES Marines in Liberia are ever mindful of the disastrous peacekeeping operation in Mogadishu, vividly portrayed in the movie ``Black Hawk Down''

AP , MONROVIA, LIBERIA

"If they came earlier, maybe it wouldn't be like this: no food, no medicine, no shelter," said Sely Williams, one of tens of thousands of refugees from the fighting living in a derelict sports stadium outside Monrovia.

"Everything is so hard. See what we're eating," said the 38-year old woman, showing a hand cupping a few grains of a dry, high-protein biscuit.

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