Posted on 10/28/2003 10:54:18 PM PST by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:09:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Last May, people in the war-torn northern Democratic Republic of the Congo received hope of help from an unexpected source. It came from none less than the European Union (EU). For the first time ever, the EU launched a force of peacekeepers, under the leadership of France. The Congolese got up their hopes of much- needed relief, but given the dearth of manpower and the constraints set by U.N. engagement rules for peacekeepers, the three months' deployment in the province of Ituri was not exactly a great military milestone.
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