United Nations should use private firms, unarmed citizens to keep peace
Date: January 24, 2013
Press Clip Source: The Boston Globe
Written By: Farah Stockman
Date: January 22, 2013
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In 1994, as the Rwandan genocide got underway, Kofi Annan — then head of UN Peacekeeping Operations — searched desperately for a military that was willing to intervene. No one would. He ended up calling Eeben Barlow, the CEO of the South African private security company, Executive Outcomes, to ask if the company could stop the killing.
“Sure,” Barlow said, estimating that a team of 1,500 men could get control of Rwanda within four weeks and hand it over to the United Nations, for an undisclosed fee.
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