LEADER 04919nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910463755803321 005 20211008215417.0 010 $a0-8122-2319-5 010 $a0-8122-0758-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207583 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060330 035 $a(OCoLC)859160782 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748493 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000885387 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11452366 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000885387 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10946219 035 $a(PQKB)11235023 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442104 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19123 035 $a(DE-B1597)449660 035 $a(OCoLC)1013956420 035 $a(OCoLC)979756591 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207583 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442104 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748493 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682420 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060330 100 $a20120503d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aClan cleansing in Somalia$b[electronic resource] $ethe ruinous legacy of 1991 /$fLidwien Kapteijns 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (319 p.) 225 0 $aPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51138-1 311 0 $a0-8122-4467-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [283]-296) and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tNote on Transliteration --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Speaking the Unspeakable: Somali Poets and Novelists on Civil War Violence --$tChapter 2. Historical Background to the Violence of State Collapse --$tChapter 3. Clan Cleansing in Mogadishu and Beyond --$tChapter 4. The Why and How of Clan Cleansing: Political Objectives and Discursive Means --$tTime-Line of the Major Events Examined in This Book --$tNotes --$tGlossary --$tBibliography --$tName Index --$tSubject Index --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 1991, certain political and military leaders in Somalia, wishing to gain exclusive control over the state, mobilized their followers to use terror-wounding, raping, and killing-to expel a vast number of Somalis from the capital city of Mogadishu and south-central and southern Somalia. Manipulating clan sentiment, they succeeded in turning ordinary civilians against neighbors, friends, and coworkers. Although this episode of organized communal violence is common knowledge among Somalis, its real nature has not been publicly acknowledged and has been ignored, concealed, or misrepresented in scholarly works and political memoirs-until now. Marshaling a vast amount of source material, including Somali poetry and survivor accounts, Clan Cleansing in Somalia analyzes this campaign of clan cleansing against the historical background of a violent and divisive military dictatorship, in the contemporary context of regime collapse, and in relationship to the rampant militia warfare that followed in its wake. Clan Cleansing in Somalia also reflects on the relationship between history, truth, and post-conflict reconstruction in Somalia. Documenting the organization and intent behind the campaign of clan cleansing, Lidwien Kapteijns traces the emergence of the hate narratives and code words that came to serve as rationales and triggers for the violence. However, it was not clans that killed, she insists, but people who killed in the name of clan. Kapteijns argues that the mutual forgiveness for which politicians often so lightly call is not a feasible proposition as long as the violent acts for which Somalis should forgive each other remain suppressed and undiscussed. Clan Cleansing in Somalia establishes that public acknowledgment of the ruinous turn to communal violence is indispensable to social and moral repair, and can provide a gateway for the critical memory work required from Somalis on all sides of this multifaceted conflict. 410 0$aPennsylvania studies in human rights. 606 $aClans$zSomalia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aClans$zSomalia$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aPolitics and literature$zSomalia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitics and literature$zSomalia$xHistory$y21st century 607 $aSomalia$xPolitics and government$y1960-1991 607 $aSomalia$xPolitics and government$y1991- 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aClans$xHistory 615 0$aClans$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 676 $a967.7305/3 700 $aKapteijns$b Lidwien$0657702 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463755803321 996 $aClan cleansing in Somalia$91333152 997 $aUNINA