In 1990, one of the most extraordinary happenings of the decade passed with
almost no record at all in the mass media. While the world was preoccupied with
the Iraq-Kuwait situation, a bunch of desperately poor people living in a virtually
unknown country named Somalia overthrew their government. What is not
remarkable is that this happened. What is remarkable is that the people forbade
anyone from setting up a new one. In effect, they abolished their government.
