SOMALIA HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION 1992-1993 by G. P. ...

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Peacekeeping Force to have it clear that it is not they but the Organization the one
which take decisions.
We believe that, at present, the anticipated withdrawal of US troops could
bring about to Operation a setback difficult to redress.
Possibly, the worst mistake of all in this Peacekeeping Operation has been to
trust more in power than in negotiation, overlooking the warnings of those people
who knew the issues more or who confronted the proceedings with methodological
warnings.
Thus, the United States, once more, became a party to a civil war in a distant
country where it did not have specific interests and, possibly, if we analyze a bit
further, what they would be left with as a basis for their intervention - besides the
humanitarian assistance first fostered by the United Nations - would be the idea of
spreading Western values to a people who, because they have their own and
different values, find it difficult to understand the role they are supposed to fulfil.
(VII)
(VIII)
(IX)
(X)
Taken from "Importancia del respeto y difusion del Derecho Internacional Humanitario por las Fuerzas
de Mantenimiento de la Paz de las Naciones Unidas", Author: SUSANA FRAIDENRAIJ, Editor: La
Ley, pag. 1 to 4,4 June 1993, Buenos Aires - Argentina.
Condensed from "Somalia...": Author: R. ALONSO, Newspaper "CLARIN", Editorial pages, 18 October
1993, Bs. As., Argentina.
Newspaper "CLARIN", pag. 31, 14 July 1993, Bs. As., Argentina.
Newspaper "CLARIN", pag. 39, 8 October 1993, Bs. As., Argentina.