Originally posted by: konichiwa
Originally posted by: charrison
Originally posted by: konichiwa
It's what happens when you do things without the support of any international bodies (aka the UN).
Yes, please list all the military successes the UN had?
I didn't say anything about military successes, but UN peacekeepers and quasi-police forces would have been perfect for this type of situation.
5 mins spent on google:
(New York, June 20, 2000)?In a letter to the members of the United
Nations Security Council, Human Rights Watch today urged decisive action
to bring war criminals in Sierra Leone to justice. The rights group
also called for stepped up U.N. efforts to protect civilians, and strict
enforcement of an arms and diamond embargo against the Sierra Leonean
rebels.
"The U.N. must set up a credible, even-handed, and well-funded court to
bring to justice the perpetrators of atrocities in Sierra Leone," said
Peter Takirambudde, Executive Director of the Africa Division of Human
Rights Watch. "The international community must also cut off the supply
of arms to the rebels and their illegal trade in diamonds which is
fueling the war."
Since the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) took more than five
hundred U.N. peacekeepers hostage and restarted offensive actions
against the Sierra Leone government in early May, Human Rights Watch has
documented a renewed surge in abuses by the RUF, including the first
testimonies of amputations since the July 1999 Lomé peace accord, as
well as numerous cases of rape, widespread looting, abductions, forced
recruitment of child soldiers, and summary executions. Disturbingly,
U.N. peacekeepers have on several occasions abandoned civilians to their
fate without making any attempt to protect them from RUF attack.
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RODALJICE, Croatia (AP) -- If U.N. peacekeepers leave Croatia, a
handful of Croats who have clung to their homes and meager
livelihoods in Serb-held territory say they will have to give up
and flee, too.-snip-
Despite the international presence, they have faced evictions,
harassment, looting and even murder in retaliation for Croatian
army attacks, aid workers say
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U.N. reports looting by African peacekeepers
MONROVIA, Liberia - West African peacekeepers were reported Thursday to have
joined in "very
heavy" looting in Monrovia, virtually paralyzing the U.N. food distribution
system that feeds about
1.5 million people throughout Liberia.
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Violence Erupts in East Timor Despite UN Presence
By Shravanti Reddy
Red Pepper
UK
January 2003
What began as a peaceful student protest on December 4 in the East Timor
capital city of Dili ended in the largest violent conflict the nation has
seen since independence.
On that day, two people were shot and killed and 26 people were injured as
a state of emergency was declared and the city was placed on curfew. Peace
returned the following morning, with the help of the UN Peacekeeping Force
(PKF) and the UN Police (UNPOL).
It's a big nasty world out there...no one has all the answers...not even the UN.
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