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Originally Posted by LynnieS
Actually, from where are these security personnel being drawn, and how many is on the ground serving? Under what mandate do they operate also?
The UN does not have its own peacekeepers that I know of, and have to ask countries for volunteers. Some of those countries also have their own policies under which their people have to follow - even assuming that they are under UN command, which may not be the case.
The UN isn't all powerful; it's stronger than the League of Nations, IMHO, but that isn't saying much. |
there were 9000 un peacekeeper operating in haiti at the time of the earthquake. the un force suffer 46 losses due to the earthquake. i would think they could have spare a hundred troops to protect the medical team.
of course that is assuming the peacekeeper were issue real guns with real bullets unlike the ones in srebrenica who were told to stop the serbs with empty guns and goodwill. Even if the UN didn't have enough the least they could have done was evacuate some of the more serious patience instead of leaving them all there.