U.N. Peacekeeping Operations

See. Power Jonathan , ‘How long a military aim does U.N. need’, The Statesman, August 26.1993. p. 5.

For example. in 1977 the UNEF troops in Sinai cleared 3.000 mines and 35.000 pieces of ammunition. See. Bath Richard . ‘Peacekeepers in Labanon’. The Sunday Standard, April 16. 1978.

Interestingly enough on October 11, 1993 most of the 133 Norwegians serving with the U.N. force in Somalia resigned in an unprecedented protest, saying their pay was too low for an increasingly dangerous job. The Statesman, October 12, 1993, p. 5.

Chaudhuri J.N. General . ‘Peacekeeping has its Rewards’. The Statesman, September 30, 1977.

The Statesman, January 19, 1994, p. 7.

See Inoguchi Takashi . ‘A job for the men from UNPKO’, Far Eastern Economic Review, December 13, 1990. p. 24.

Bath Richard . n. 3.

The Straits Times, January 11. 1989. p. 5.

Goshko John M. . ‘U.N. struggles as peacemaker’. The Telegraph. November 8. 1989. p. 6. See also. The Times of India, August 21. 1988.

Power Jonathan . ‘Let those with problems find their own answers’. The Statesman, February 10, 1994. p. 9.

See. Asiaweek, October 30, 1992, p. 35 for the details of country-wise deployment of military and police.

Asiaweek, June 26. 1992. p. 54.

The Cambodian Government has acknowledged that it cannot defeat the guerrillas militarily. The Statesman, September 1, 1994. p. 9.

Thion Serge ‘Failure in Cambodia’. Far Eastern Economic Review, January 21, 1993. p: 28.

Asiaweek. March 6, 1992. p. 29.

See, Jenkins Simon . ‘Let the Bosnians seek, find and keep their own peace’. The Statesman, March 6, 1994. p. 9.

The Statesman, September 9. 1994. p. 9.

The Statesman, January 26. 1994, p. 8.

The Statesman, August 31. 1994. p. 7.

Ibid .

Ibid. However, the Americans have shifted their position on this issue so as to avoid a break with its European allies.

Ibid. It needs to be remembered, however that air strikes made so far have been of limited value. Use of air power carries considerable risk for U.N. troops and humanitarian workers. Titus while the Western powers have threatened to use force, they have very infrequently carried out the threats. We need only compare the number of times situations fit for use of force have arisen with the number of times force has actually been used.

The USA always maintained direct control of its key units in Somalia and the U.N. only played second fiddle. See. Power Jonathan . ‘Pessimism allowed to cloud the picture’. The Statesman, October 28, 1993. p. 5.

The Hindustan Times, June 19. 1993. p. 14.

The Somalis incidentally came to regard U.N. forces as another faction and its chief U.S.A.’s Jonathan Howe as a warlord. See. Peterson C.M. Barkley D.T. . ‘Saving Somalia: Perils of Ignoring the Claims’, The Statesman, November 16, 1993, p. 8.

Luthra Pran Nath . Somalia Crisis: Need for a Regional Mechanism’, The Statesman. February 1. 1994. p. 8.

See. Preston Julia . ‘U.N. decides to limit Somalia operations’, The Hindustan Times, February 6, 1994, p. 15.

The ghastly killing of seven Indian members of the U.N. peacekeeping force in an ambush on August 22, 1994 is a case in point.

The Statesman, August 23. 1994. p. 1.

The Statesman, February 2. 1994. p. 9.

Power Jonathan , n. 24.

See. The Statesman. February 9. 1994. p. 9.

Luthra Pran Nath . ‘Ideas. No Action: U.N. Needs Radical Reforms’, The Statesman, October 31, 1993. p. 8. The Washington Post recently reported that major powers were using the U.N.’s peacekeeping missions to reassert their influence over small countries they had traditionally dominated. The paper said that ceding effective control of peacekeeping to individual powers could result in a kind of imperial dominance being reestablished under the U.N. cover. The Statesman, July 31. 1994. p. 7.

Luthra Pran Nath . ibid.