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How Somalis see the 'Black Hawk Down' battle three decades on

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The expression Black Hawk Down, the title of a Hollywood film, has become shorthand for a 1993 US military disaster in Somalia.

Eighteen American soldiers lost their lives in the fighting that began on 3 October, but so did hundreds of Somalis.

As Netflix launches a documentary about those events, the BBC has spoken to some Somalis still scarred by what happened.

A narrow grey line.
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Despite being surrounded by the debris of an ongoing civil war, Mogadishu's residents in the early 1990s embraced the moments of serenity.

The warm Sunday sunshine and cooling ocean breeze made for the perfect opportunity for Binti Ali Wardhere, 24 at the time, to visit relatives with her mother.