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"The UN needs to release far more about these investigations' findings, to provide greater transparency about who was responsible for the violence and why the peacekeepers' response was slow and ineffective," said Wells.

But Ban said the UN was limited in its response because governments refused to give it the authority to do more than order peacekeepers responsible for sexual abuse to return home.

Last year, the US launched an initiative to strengthen the militaries in six African countries and establish reaction forces to "rapidly deploy peacekeepers in response to emerging conflict".

The UN in New York had ignored warnings that the genocide was being planned and the security council was pulling out peacekeepers in response to the mass killing.

Correction: September 15 , 2005 Thursday An article on Aug. 21 about a video made by a group of peacekeepers that satirizes the American response to the war in Kosovo referred incorrectly to Bob Rivers, who wrote the parody song in 1999.

All these countries are developing quick-response teams of peacekeepers to be deployed in trouble-spots.

Most notably, significant tension arose between the two after UN peacekeepers were taken as hostages in response to NATO bombing.

Western diplomats in Congo say they worry that the spate of attacks on peacekeepers -- and their less than robust response -- have sent a message of weakness to guerrilla leaders with no apparent stake in peace.

That the incident was over within hours and a relative calm returned along the rugged and hilly frontier owed as much to the quick response and persuasive powers of United Nations peacekeepers in the region (Unifil), as anything else.

In the absence of an effective government response, locals have cobbled together groups of peacekeepers who have become the plateau's de facto law enforcement.

Sodio Omar Hassan, who was seeking treatment for her child's malaria at a hospital set up by African Union peacekeepers, said people were angry at al-Shabaab's response to the relief effort.