![]() ![]() ![]() The opening sequences present a series of grim images of silent, starved, and dead Somalis, and the equally silent Red Cross workers who try to nourish the living. In Scott's film, it is not only the Somalis, but also the humanitarian internationals themselves-the Red Cross and the United Nations-who appear to be powerless. At first blush, Ridley Scott's film Black Hawk Down (2001), which stages the 1993 battle of Mogadishu in Somalia, appears to craft a similar narrative, but with a significant modification. In Reading Humanitarian Intervention, Anne Orford observes that "legal texts justifying interventions in the name of human rights protection offer a narrative in which the international community as heroic savior rescues those passive victims who suffer at the hands of bullies and tyrants" (2003, 34-35).
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