Chapter 5
Matters of Life and Death:The Record of HumanitarianIntervention
‘Peace is a process, not an event’
Victor Reider1
‘I am convinced that the Serbs could have been stopped in October 1991 with three ships, three dozen planes, and 3000 men’
Jean Cot, Commander of UNPROFOR2
In Cambodia, a Buddhist prophecy tells of a white elephant in blue armour that will rescue the country from a terrible conflagration.3 After the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge and the instability that followed, UN forces arrived in Cambodia during 1993 to help the country prepare for democratic elections. Their white Toyota land-cruisers and blue UN livery convinced some Cambodians that the prophecy was about to be realised, but this elephant had a very short memory, ...
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