The Battle They Counted DifferentlySomalia · October 1993“You have seen this story told elsewhere, in other languages. Come to the fire and hear it again from the beginning.”By 1993 Somalia had no government. Siad Barre had fled two years earlier and left behind a country divided among clan warlords and an encroaching famine.The lesson the elders kept: The same battle looks entirely different depending on which side of the river you were standing on - and whose dead are counted, named, and remembered shapes which story becomes history.