The next day, it rained heavily in Mogadishu for the first time in a long time.
For Mogadishu, located in Africa, this rain came quite timely, dispelling the heat of many days and moistening the crops, but it did not dispel the fighting spirit of many pirate groups.
Starting from the morning, police officials who had just started work and were not even awake were called to the chief's office. There was a map of Mogadishu with more than a dozen areas divided on it. These places are pirate activity areas. .
Originally, there were dozens of pirate groups in Mogadishu, but after recent upgrades and mergers, many groups have completed reintegration. After all, everyone understands that you cannot eat the big cake alone.
The remaining pirate groups now have ocean-going fishing vessels as their mother ships.
In addition, some pirates choose to leave Mogadishu and go to other areas.
The director divided each area into his own men, and then told them that everyone must collect enough money for him, otherwise, they would make up for the shortfall.
The police had nothing to do about it. After all, they were the other party's subordinates, so everyone packed their weapons and ammunition and began to march towards their respective destinations.
If there were no accidents, they would complete the mission today through robbery. After all, they were equipped with all military-standard automatic weapons and were naturally not something pirates could fight against. However, the military and police officers could not have imagined that the pirates opposite them would now switch from guns to guns.
Facing the police who came to collect protection fees, the pirate gangs were all thinking. Some started to attack when the police entered their territory, while others waited for the police to walk into the ambush without any precautions. Fire again.
But no matter what, the Somali military and police were indeed stunned!
Most of their thin-skinned vehicles are goods from World War II, and many of them are even assembled from the wreckage. What their opponents are using is AK47 rifles, and many pirates even take out RPG rocket launchers.
Although due to lack of training, the pirates caused hellish jokes when using the rocket launcher, including but not limited to pointing the back tube at teammates, holding the rocket launcher in the wrong direction, etc.
But these RPG rocket launchers are real rocket launchers!
As soon as a rocket was fired, the car was penetrated, and fragments of the engine were scattered all over the place.
In addition to pirates, Somali people even joined the fight. They threw stones from all directions at the military and police who were trapped behind walls or debris. Some women even threw their children's excrement on each other's heads.
After all, things like fighting between soldiers and civilians are still a bit too advanced for the Somalis. Although they are not as good as some warlords who burn, kill and loot, they still do a lot of things like touching the little girl's buttocks and grabbing a few cabbages from the aunt in private. , not to mention that a large number of people are required to pay fines for various reasons.
Now that they had the opportunity, everyone was venting their anger.
When the police officers in the police station learned that friendly troops were blocked in a corner by mobs and beaten violently, they jumped into action and immediately mobilized all their manpower to try to teach these mobs a lesson.
But as soon as they broke out of the door, hundreds of pirates rushed into the police station from all directions. Several police officers in the station were subdued in an instant. Then, the pirates directly opened the weapons warehouse and distributed the weapons inside to The people who came with them.
Then, under the leadership of a few guys who knew the police station thoroughly, everyone ransacked the police station's warehouse. What was stored here was not precious documents or police equipment, but military and police stolen goods from pirates. The stolen goods that were plundered from his hands before he even had time to dispose of them.
It includes various electrical appliances, clothing, or other industrial products, and even a lot of expired baby food and moldy rice flour.
Seeing that the things they had worked so hard to rob were moldy and rotting here, many pirates immediately became angry. They opened all the warehouses, distributed all the items to civilians, and then began to set fire to the police station.
Although it was raining, the raging flames still engulfed the police station and surrounding warehouses, burning everything to the ground.
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The arrogant police officers were so panicked that all the Somalis who had had conflicts with them joined the fight. Many police officers could only throw away their weapons and police uniforms and blend into the crowd to make up their numbers, while those who could not escape had no choice but to Find a safe place to hide, or be killed by the pursuers.
Somalia once got out of trouble during the Soviet aid period, but the huge losses caused by the failure of the war, both in terms of casualties and economic losses, have exhausted the people, and their dissatisfaction with the government has also grown day by day. This conflict is like throwing into a gasoline barrel A match ignited everything in an instant.
On the second day of the riots, almost all the slums in Mogadishu began to riot. The Somali government tried to dispatch troops to control the situation, but except for a small number of troops, most people refused to send out. After all, the angry people were not covered. Those hapless police officers who died without burial have told everyone the price of a random end.
The troops who responded to the order did not dare to do anything else. Instead, they could only protect important places in the city. The Somali government's weakness immediately gave many self-respecting generals a lot of careful thoughts, but At least for now they don't dare to show it.
But at this critical moment, a black man in a suit pushed away the guard and began to shout to the crowd of people who were gathered and asked them to go home immediately.
The Somalis didn't take it seriously at first, but when they learned the identity of the other party, they immediately dispersed.
And this person is called *** Farah Aidid. At this time, he was not a celebrity, but he was also a well-known war hero in Somalia. He performed outstandingly in the Ogaden War, but after the war he was only Can be assigned to fill idle positions by high-level government officials.
But even so, President Siad is still worried about this middle-aged military officer. He even plans to send him to a foreign country as an ambassador, which can be regarded as a disguised exile.
At this moment, Aidid left the safety of his home and went to the street to shout to the people, saying that all conflicts could be discussed. For this reason, he even went to the armed mob with his bare hands to give a speech and shout out.
And the thugs who could easily take his life were quickly persuaded by him to drop their weapons and leave.
As a result, a riot that should have spread throughout Mogadishu was quelled by his efforts.
"Aided, this guy is really a great talent, but it's a pity that he is a Somali!"
