United Nations peacekeepers in Ivory Coast's main city are under siege by supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo. More than 2,000 protesters have tried to force their way into UN headquarters in Abidjan, and had to be held back by warning shots and tear gas.

More than 300 troops have been forced to withdraw from two UN bases in the west of the country after clashes that left at least four protesters dead.


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I wonder if the US troops or British will be sent to save them again or not.

UN is just a piece of work, isnt it?

Figures, the UN got in way over their heads again.

God, just destory the UN so that land in New York can be put to good use, like low rent hi-rise apartments.

Well, the UN can work, it just needs to realise that you have to be nasty to be effective. Successful peace support style opertaions by the Brits and the French in Africa proved this.

Successful peace support style opertaions by the Brits and the French in Africa proved this.

And which missions are those?

Certainly not Somalia, Rwanda, Ivory Coast (The French have been there), or the Sudan.

The UN, while a noble idea, is a complete and utter failure.

Well, UN Peacekeeping is tremendously under-resourced. The annual spend in the last fiscal year was $ 3.4 billion, compared to the annual global spend on civil wars of around $ 140 billion. Real drop in the ocean stuff.

I will agree with the under resourced statement. But, that is about the smallest problem they have. Failing to deal with child rapist peacekeepers, adopting rules of engagement that amount to "Stand around and watch everybody kill each other", and the hyprocrisy of staffing committees that are suppose to deal with human rights violations with countries that have long and ongoing problem's with torturing and killing its own citizens.

The UN has turned out to be about as useful as the League of Nations.

Originally Posted by Forrest_Gump

The UN has turned out to be about as useful as the League of Nations.

Yeah.

these troops aren't trained for engaging an hostile enemy they are prepared for peace keeping if the hotshots that were there before would have done their job right...anyway thik of them more as a police force then as a military one

Forest Gump........What about Serria Leone, was that a success or not

Sierra Leone... was that the one that the mercenary army kept the peace then the UN told them that mercenaries where immoral and the moral authority of the UN would maintain the peace now that the mercenaries had made it. Then many months later the bloodshed began again. Or was I thinking about something else?