UN peacekeeping operations (catch all)

[Bill Moore]

Classic under-statement warning



Link:http://mobile.reuters.com/article/id...40516?irpc=932

What did GEN Rupert Smith write in his book? Something along the lines of we're willing to deploy military forces, but not employ them. The UN does great work in many fields, but it is a failure at peace operations.

[davidbfpo]

A rare article on events in Darfur, I'd forgotten there was a UN mission there, known as UNAMID (a hybrid with the AU) and in place for six years:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-r..._5683453.html?

The author ends with:

It's difficult to escape the conclusion that Darfur is the genocide that people got tired of. A terrible epitaph in the wake of so many impassioned declarations of "never again."

Facts & figures for UNAMID:http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/mi...id/facts.shtml