History Of The Conflict

   The Somali piracy problem hasn’t always been as high as it is right now. In the early 1950’s the land now known as Somalia was originally a protectorate of Britain called Somaliland. The citizens of present day Somalia rebelled and gained independence from Britain in late 1956. But before they rebelled against Britain they had to fight of the Italians and British caused by an on and of war against the two powers. In 1981 a group of Isaaq immigrants living in London formed the Somali National Movement was later to become the leading insurgent group in Somalia. All the Somali National Movement tried to accomplish was to impeach Siad Barre’s dictator ship. It was three years later that the ex-spokesman went insane and declared war on another warlord.The citizens also had a democratically elected government. The citizens elected Abdi Rashid Ali Shermarke as president (www.bbc.co.uk).