Inside, Ms. Rahmani soon realized she needed a whip hand with a few of the customers, and she put up a warning sign: "Do not show your ugly side to our peacekeeping security staff".
-In your opinion, has the United Nation's peacekeeping mission been an effective one?
The booty helps pay the militias to fight, giving them good reason to carry on the conflict.Co-operate or lose your cashThe UN maintains its biggest peacekeeping force in the world in Congo, 17,000 strong, but has struggled to impose order on chaotic North and South Kivu.
Your Feb. 21 front-page photograph of American peacekeeping soldiers cowering before Serbs throwing rocks shows the impotence of peacekeepers when the warring camps are energized by centuries of hate.
What are your thoughts on the use of U.N. peacekeeping forces instead of military intervention during times of instability and violence?
For example, when the lord's domain is subjected to a hostile takeover the lord usually cuts himself a comfortable deal, but the peasants suffer rape and pillage.Jeffrey Bentley-Johnston SydneyStrife in eastern CongoSIR – Much of your article on Congo was a balanced assessment of peacekeeping in the country ("Not quite as bloody as before", November 28th).
4. WRAP-UP/HOMEWORK: Individually, students should respond to the following (written on the board for students to copy before leaving class): "Imagine that your opinion weighed heavily in the decision for NATO to takeover peacekeeping forces in Kabul.
"We warn all the countries that are intending to participate in the crusader campaign on our land, even if in the name of peacekeeping, that we will make you taste the heat of death and wounds in your homelands and among your soldiers," the service quoted Mr. Belmokhtar as saying.
Why not give proper backing to what we know works well?GEORGE BENNETTSTAR RadioMonrovia, LiberiaKeeping the peaceSIR Your analysis of successful peacekeeping in Africa could be more searching (January 16th).
