{"id":2160,"date":"2007-07-07T13:06:11","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2007-07-07T13:06:11","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T18:06:11","slug":"who-polices-the-united-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2160","title":{"rendered":"Who polices the United Nations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Toni Oyry, Reuters AlertNet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/db\/blogs\/39839\/2007\/06\/5-161516-1.htm\">5 July 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United Nations is supposed to play global policeman, but what happens when its own peacekeepers break the law?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a question raised by a string of incidents allegedly involving Pakistani and Bangladeshi peacekeeping troops in war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>In a debate this week at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chathamhouse.org.uk\/\" target=\"new\">Chatham House<\/a> foreign policy think tank in London, BBC Africa Editor Martin Plaut presented some of the evidence against the troops, aired in a BBC report in May.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. mission in Congo, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monuc.org\/Home.aspx?lang=en\" target=\"new\">MONUC<\/a>, which began in 1999, is to date the largest and most expensive peacekeeping operation in the world body&#8217;s history. Although it has been viewed as a relative success following the end of a conflict described as the World War of Africa, the deployment has also been plagued by allegations of misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>These include sexual abuse of minors, killing of Congolese prisoners and the trading of weapons confiscated from local militias for gold.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/db\/blogs\/39839\/2007\/06\/5-161516-1.htm\">Read the report<\/a>]?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toni Oyry, Reuters AlertNet, 5 July 2007 The United Nations is supposed to play global policeman, but what happens when its own peacekeepers break the law? That&#8217;s a question raised by a string of incidents allegedly involving Pakistani and Bangladeshi &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2160\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-yQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}