A peacekeeping puzzle for Europe

摘要

The idea of sending several thousand European Union (eu) soldiers and a bunch of un policemen to protect 400,000 displaced civilians and Sudanese refugees from Darfur who have been sheltering in eastern Chad seems well-intentioned, as does sending a handful more to the remote north of the neighbouring Central African Republic (car). Here, too, civilians are being terrorised by local rebels and by some from neighbouring countries who use swathes of the car's lawless terrain for rest, transit and launching attacks.