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...crimes courts and tribunals to punish the men responsible for 10 years of bloodshed. On May 26th of this year, in a promising reversal of past wrongs, the RUF released 600 children, between the ages of 6 and 10 years. old who had served as ‘soldiers??€™ in the rebel army. With her sons at Harvard and in boarding school, Edgar’s mother returned to Freetown and to her husband, whom she hasn’t lived with for the last five years. As Edgar puts it in his typical down-to-earth style...
...problem is two-fold: for all of the atrocity in the world, the international community sends in peacekeepers only a fraction of the time, and the peacekeeping missions that do happen are undertaken by regular soldiers??€”who are trained at killing and not peacekeeping—and so these missions are typically mired by inefficiency. A permanent peacekeeping force would address the first problem and it would solve the second...