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...know only the way of war--and who continue to prey upon the people of eastern Congo. It was precisely to deal with such disasters--and with leaders like Kabila and Nkunda--that in 2005 the U.N. World Summit adopted a set of principles called the responsibility to protect, or R2P. Intended to prevent a repeat of cataclysms like the one in Rwanda, when the world watched but did little, R2P enshrines in international law the justification and obligation for intervention. A nation forfeits its sovereignty if it commits or is unable to prevent massive human-rights abuses...
...came into effect. But as the U.N.'s idea of peacekeeping evolved from deterrence and cease-fire-monitoring to peace-enforcing, so MONUC grew. It has the most aggressive peacekeeping mandate in U.N. history, one that includes "forcibly implementing" cease-fires and "using all means deemed necessary" to protect civilians and improve security. It is also supported by the world's largest peacekeeping force--20,000 soldiers from 18 countries--and funded by the biggest peacekeeping budget ever, an annual $1.1 billion...
...built tents of sticks and rags in front of the gates. "Nobody ever gets into the base," said Meshaq Shebani, 22, a roadside diesel vendor. He eyed the rows of yellow and red flowers around a spot marked vip parking next to the commander's tent. "They don't protect us. They just sit there drinking...
...refused, and the nuns took her themselves once more. Almost 36 hours after the U.N. first learned of her being injured, a MONUC helicopter picked up Sister Marķa and flew her the 10 minutes to Goma. "What is their point?" Father George says of MONUC. "They say they protect people, but they do nothing, nothing, nothing." Farther north, at Rwindi, I watched a group of Mai Mai child soldiers as young as 12 march unmolested past the gates of another MONUC base. Later, Dietrich said at the press conference in Goma that this column had been stopped...
...checkpoint, where fighters searched a truckload of army wives, confiscating tubs of baby formula, bottles of Golden cooking oil and packs of Nice & Lovely face cream. Mai Mai leader Kissinger Kisamba is an army deserter. "This is my area," he said. "So I formed my own group to protect the people." MONUC, he added, "does not know the situation here...