International Day of United Nations peacekeepers.(Opinion & Editorial)

From: Manila Bulletin | Date: May 29, 2006 | Copyright information

IN 1948, the United Nations Security Council decided to establish a field operation to supervise a fragile truce in the first Arab-Israeli war. Two weeks later, an initial group of 36 unarmed military observers arrived in the Middle East as the first United Nations (UN) peacekeepers. Almost six decades later, hundreds of thousands of individuals, the vast majority of them soldiers, have served in almost 60 United Nations peacekeeping operations. While the United Nations peacekeeping operations have seen close to 2,000 of military and civilian peacekeepers killed while in service, ...

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