After the apparent masacre of 100s (if not thousands) of people (many of them reported to be women and children) in Duekoue in the Ivory Coast; a town protected by a UN peace keeping force, my mind goes back to the awful events at Srebrenica in July 1995, where upto 8000 civilian males (men and boys) were massacred - despite the town being a UN Safe Area and "protected" by a UN peace keeping force.
Sadly it seems that 16 years on the UN still has not learnt the lessons and has not given its Peace keepers the robust rules of engagement that are neccessary for them to keep the peace.
We may as well just call them Massacre Observation patrols and take away their weapons, they seem on the surface incapable of using them to do the job their title suggests.
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