Last week, 9 Bangladeshi MONUC peacekeepers who were securing the perimeter of a camp for the internally displaced were reportedly stripped of their weapons, ammunition, uniforms, and equipment and executed at point blank range after an ambush by militants in eastern Congo.
Just a few days later, Pakistani peacekeepers were on a mission to dismantle a militant headquarters in Ituri province when they came under fire and responded by killing some 60 militants.
Any peacekeeping mission with a proper mandate is going to put both the peacekeepers and the general population at risk. Outside intervention in Darfur is not going to magically stop the violence.
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