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About 400,000 refugees left Somalia to go to Ethiopia.
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The Somali National Movement was based in Ethiopia and attacked the Somali army. It's main goal was to overthrow Barre.
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Barres regime declared a state of emergency and the United States gave $80 million dollars in economic and millitary aid.
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Siad Barre arrested 17 prominant politicans to try and prove that he held all the power in Somalia.
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Somali dissients attacked the center of Somalia. They captured the towns Balumbale and Galdogob and threatened to split Somalia in half.
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Human rights groups say that about 3,000 Somali people were killed by the government for supposedly holding illegal weapons.
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This army killed tens of thousands of people in cities near Burao.
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By 1988 the Barre regime was accused of genocide against people in the northern part of Somalia.
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The United States stopped supplying Somalia with weapons and encouraged them to stop fighting.
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In 1991 the President of Somalia fled to Nigeria and left the country without a stable government.
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Due to the number of Somali's being affected in the conflict the United Nations brought military to try peacekeeping operations. They hoped to end the conflict and create a safe environment to provide assistance to the people.
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Nearly 90% of the population near Mogadishu was malnourished and only a third had clean water.
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Only a year after the Red Cross reported the high number of malnourished people things seemed to be a little bit better.
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Order had not been restored yet when they withdrew and the conflict continued through the 1990's.
