General Aidid Was Fighting For Democracy

In this video Aidid clearly states what he was fighting for which was democracy. Mohamed Farrah Hassan Aidid (Somali: Maxamed Faarax Xasan Caydiid: 15 December 1934 – 1 August 1996) was a Somali politician. A former general and diplomat, he was the chairman of the United Somali Congress (USC) and later led the Somali National Alliance (SNA). Along with other armed opposition groups, he succeeded in overthrowing and exiling President Mohamed Siad Barre's socialist and anti-communist regime from Somalia during the Somali Civil War that broke out in the early 1990s. In 1992, Aidid attacked United Nations troops, causing him to be named the world’s first Wanted Man of the Unified Task Force. After UN peacekeepers withdrew in 1993, 19 American soldiers were killed by Aidid's forces. Famous for black hawk down Movie in which the Americans tried to capture him and failed.