UN must be equipped to prevent mass murder
The world desperately needs to put in place a properly trained and equipped UN army - an international force of professionals recruited from each UN member state to help deter aggression. But it seems the international community has not been shamed by its ineffectiveness in the Rwandan and Darfur theatres of death.
A brutal campaign of state-sponsored violence in Darfur has led to the deaths of up to 300,000 people, and the lives of about two million displaced people hang in the balance.
Millions are being terrorised, raped and tortured, and still the international community refuses to commit peacekeepers or armies and sits on its hands, spouting the rhetoric of ‘state sovereignty’ in excusing its sheer inaction. To heck with the sovereignty of a nation - when a nation cannot or is unwilling to protect its own people, an international force must be made available to bring the carnage to an end. The Government should provide global leadership by driving this agreement to protect the vulnerable from mass murder.
John O’Shea
GOAL
PO Box 19
Dún Laoghaire
Co Dublin
