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Peace at what price?
The authors investigated reports of abuse at the hands of the UN peacekeepers in Democratic Republic of Congo. A well known secret within the UN the rape and abuse of the community have left consequences far more damming than the remnants of war.
Tags: rape; sexual abuse; United Nations Peacekeeping; UN code of conduct; UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations; Democratic Republic of Congo; Africa
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"Peace at What Price?"
ABC news documented the extent of abuse U.N. peacekeepers have been inflicting on women and children in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Although reports of child pornography, rape and paedophile rings have been rampant, U.N. officials have refused to allow either military or civilian employees to be tried, and even have refused to cooperate with further investigation of its personnel.
Tags: United Nations; sexual abuse; investigation; African peacekeepers
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"Losing the Peace? As Afghanistan struggles to recover, the U.S. prepares to move on"
Massing spent about two and a half weeks in Afghanistan interviewing everyone from provincial governors to aid workers, people on the street and U.S. troops. He found good security in Kabul but discontent brewing throughout the countryside. Locals expressed fear at the rise of Northern Alliance officials to positions of power in the fledgling state. Detailed descriptions provide a glimpse into the post-war nation building phase of U.S. operations in Afghanistan.
Tags: Massoud; Karzai; Islam; Islamic; Afghan; Northern Alliance; Taliban; Al Qaeda; United Nations; peacekeeping; international aid; NGO; Tajik; Panjshiri; Pashtun; warlord; ISAF; International Security Assistance Force
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Welcome Back Warrior
The tragic suicide of mentally ill Marine Corps veteran Brian Callan was the catalyst for an analysis of how the Department of Veterans Affairs fails to assist soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and a variation called peacekeeper's traumatic stress disorder. The VA has cut special services for those with PTSD, like Callan who served in Lebanon, Desert Storm and Somalia, nearly to extinction,
Tags: Marine Corps; peacekeeper's traumatic stress disorder; post-traumatic stress disorder; PTSD; suicide; Department of Veteran Affairs; VA; Brian Callan
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Peace Is Hell
"Every six month the Pentagon sends nearly 4,000 soldiers to Bosnia and brings nearly 4,000 soldiers home. To see how it's done is to understand why keeping peace has become harder than waging war - and why the Pax Americana has stretched the mighty American military to the limit," reports the Atlantic Monthly. The story details the everyday life, preparation and responsibilities of the Amerian troops in Bosnia, and sheds light on their training and equipment. The article finds that the Bosnian mission requires "all of the subtlety, patience and personal wariness that operating in international coalitions and ambiguous civilian environments entails."
Tags: Army; peacekeeping; Serbia; Bosnia; the Gulf War; Eagle Base; soldiers; troops; U.S. Department of Defense; Kosovo; Macedonia; East Timor; Fort Stewart; Pentagon
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Bystanders to Genocide
The Atlantic Monthly investigates "why the United states let the Rwandan tragedy happen." The story includes "exclusive interviews with scores of the participants in the decision-making." The author analyses "a cache of newly declassified documents" that reveal that "the U.S. government knew enough about the genocide early on to save lives..." The story reveals that "the U.S. did much more than fail to send troops...it lead a successful effort to remove most of the UN peacekeepers who were already in Rwanda." The article is a "chilling narrative of self-serving caution and flaccid will - and countless missed opportunities to mitigate a colossal crime."
Tags: United Nations; peacekeepers; politics; defense; Romeo Dallaire; Hutu; Tutsi; human rights; genocide; intelligence; Wesley Clark; Pentagon; Warren Christopher; Africa; Somalia
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After-Action Report
"After-Action Report" tells the story of Garrett Jones and John Spinelli, two CIA agents who worked in Somalia in 1993. Their account of the CIA involvement in the Somalian conflict is "one of the fullest descriptions yet of a CIA operation in the post-Cold War period -- a narrative that illuminates the hazards of 'mission creep,' when peacekeeping operations becomes heavily armed exercises in 'nation building,' and the limitations of on-the-fly intelligence in a spy paradigm that mixes special operations and law enforcement.
Tags: Somalia; CIA; spying; post-Cold War; military; United Nations; United States
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Keeping the Peace?
Dateline NBC reports "An investigation of atrocities committed around the world by United Nations peacekeepers against civilians they are supposed to protect. We obtained actual 'trophy photos' of torture sessions which were taken by UN soldiers themselves as souvenirs.... we also documented the systemic failures that led to these atrocities -- lax screening, training and punishment of peacekeepers by the UN."
Tags: VIDEOCLIP TAPE TRANSCRIPT; international reporting; third world; military abuses
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Shame of Srebrenica
CBS News reports about "the single worst war crime of the Bosnia war: the Serb massacre of approximately 8 thousand Muslims after the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995. It was the Serbs who murdered the Muslims, but our troubling story focuses on the shame that has fallen on a group of Dutch soldiers sent to Srebrenica as peacekeepers. They were sent by the UN to stop the threat of an attack by the Serbs, ... but when Srebrenica fell.. the Dutch handed over the Muslim people of the town to Serb troops commanded by General Ratko Mladic..."
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CBC investigates the abuse, torture and murder of Somali nationals, particularly the death of Shidane Arone, by soldiers from the Canadian Airborne Regiment who were deployed in Somalia as a part of the U.N. peacekeeping effort. Links between soldierncovered. (May 5, June 14, Sept. 8, 14, Oct. 2, 4, Nov. 8, Dec. 20, 1995)