Mog. Militiaman Advancing with a FN/FAL Rifle--single Aideed’s Armed Militia figure
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Item Number: BHD027
Mog. Militiaman Advancing with a FN/FAL Rifle
This is proof that not all of the Militia's weaponry came from the old Eastern Bloc. How this original Belgian-made assault rifle came to be in Mogadishu is anyone's guess.
SPECIAL NOTE: Aideed’s Armed Militia Mohamed Farrah Aideed was one of the most important ‘Clan’ leaders in Somalia during the 1980s and well into the 1990s, making large sums of money through arms smuggling, drug trafficking, and stealing United Nations supplied food relief and medical supplies. To protect him, his family and their fiefdom Aideed had built up a well-armed militia of men, women, and children who were both fanatically loyal to him personally and liberally supplied with all kinds of lethal weaponry usually from Moscow. These included the inevitable AK-47s… shoulder launched SA-7 surface-to-air missiles, plus a whole range of heavy weapons, including tanks, armoured personnel carriers, and, of course, hundreds of RPGs.
In mid 1993, Mogadishu, anyone could purchase or obtain any weapon or indeed any complete weapon system that was currently on the market. For example, the latest Russian made RPG (Rocket Propelled Grenade) cost as little as US$10:00 each … What a bargain!!!
MILITIA DRESS CODE: As you can see, a Uniform Code of Dress never existed in Aideed’s Militia. His band of thugs was indeed a sight to behold, with no two members being dressed the same way.
Due to be released in MARCH 2025.
