Somalia

Despite the concerted effort of food delivery by the U.N. and the United States to save Somalis from total annihilation, Somalis continue to die daily by the hundreds. It is said that a whole generation of Somalis has died of starvation and civil war. Relief agencies in Somalia report that the food donated as of mid-August is not even half of what is needed. The situation in Somalia is obscene and has surpassed anybody’s imagination of what damage starvation, coupled with civil war, can do to human beings.

As a Somali-American whose family is trapped in Mogadishu, I petition to all caring individuals and agencies to donate more aid to save mothers and children in Somalia and in Bosnia-Herzogovina.

ABUCAR H. IMAN

Van Nuys