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Following the horrors of World War II, there was a strong desire for a better world in which peace would be maintained and human rights respected – the U.N was born.
Now, more than 60 years later, the image of the UN has become severely tarnished.
International peace and security is in a perilous state, and scores of stories are flying around demonstrating that the UN and its Security Council could have done more harm than good.
The ‘forgotten’ shooting in Côte d’Ivoire, during which UN soldiers opened fire on unarmed demonstrators, the “Oil for Food” program in Iraq, which resulted in the wrong people reaping the benefits and the harrowing case of the UN soldiers who stood by, powerless, during the genocide in Rwanda.
These are just some of the stories uncovered in what the Los Angeles Times has called ‘a scathing take down of the United Nations’.
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