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Article: Men without shells: the UN's African peacekeepers cannot go into Rwanda until richer members supply them with armoured cars.
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 18, 1994
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TIME was when a fully equipped United Nations peacekeeping force could be plonked within days into the centre of trouble. No longer. Now it usually takes several months to get an army together and dispatch it to an emergency. When the emergency is genocide, as it is in Rwanda, the delay will cost ever more innocent lives.
A month ago the UN Security Council was shamed into decreeing that a peacekeeping force should be sent to Rwanda for strictly humanitarian purposes. The first stage of the plan would bring back to full strength the half-battalion of Ghanaian troops that was left in Rwanda's capital when the rest of the truce- supervision mission was withdrawn. ...
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