UN Intervention (1992–1995)

The UN Security Council Resolution 733 and 746 created UNOSOM I to provide relief and help restore some order to the now chaotic Somalia. In 1992, the UN Security Council Resolution 733 which approved the UN peace keepers to form UNITAF. UNITAF was in control of making sure that the aid was being distributed and peace was being made in Somalia. UN troops did not see Somalia till 1993, which started a two year effort to help the hunger condition.

Somalis and Australian Army soldiers wait near the loading zone of a US Marine CH-53 Sea Stallion delivering Australian wheat

The UN effort was lead by the United States and was criticized by some. Some of the critics believed that the US was intervening because of the prospects of oil in Somalia.

Somalis opposed the foreign presence fearing imperialism and oppression form the outsiders. The largest battle was the Battle of Mogadishu, in which 24 Pakistanis, 31 US soldiers, and over 1000 Somalis were killed. The UN withdrew all it's forces on March 3, 1995. Order in Somalia still has not been restored.