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500 Irish Troops Prepare to enter Liberia
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Tuesday December 09, 2003 02:42 by Chris Donoghue chrisdonoghue at eircom dot net
As Irish troops prepare to enter Liberia some news companies in Ireland have portrayed the country as still being at war. This is untrue and positive steps are being taken everyday to maintain permanant PEACE in the West African State. Approximtely 500 Irish troops are on the brink of joining some 15,000 U.N. troops in peacekeeping operations in the West African state of Liberia. Two weeks ago Sergeant Derek Mooney was tragically killed in a road accident in Liberia and this has prompted some newspapers to question Irish participation in the UN mission in Liberia (UNMIL). The publications in question have dug up old photographs of Liberian youths holding weapons to accompany heavily opinionated articles calling for our troops to stay at home. On the day these articles were published the UN was in fact preparing to take arms from fighters In Liberia. Last Sunday (Dec 7th) some 1,400 fighters cued for hours to hand weapons over to the UN. These weapons will now be destroyed and the programme of handing over weapons will continue. I would argue that Irish troops will be stepping into a country that is starting to see the end of a bloody fourteen-year civil war and not the country full of bandits that Independent Newspapers has portrayed. |
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Jump To Comment: 2 1If you hadn't noticed the US/K imperial alliance run a mile from conflict in Africa and have no intention of commiting troops to peacekeeping in Liberia or Congo to name but two.
Would you prefer that we continue to ignore the problems in Africa and allow the population to continue to be ravaged by war, famine and AIDS?
Our troops have an excellent record in terms of peacekeeping and relations with local communities such as in Lebanon, which will allow them to succeed where others have failed in Liberia.
All of this sits in stark contrast to the go-nowhere thug-tactics of the Americans and British stormtroopers in Iraq and Afghanistan!
That's it lads, it's very important to keep Africa safe for us money men, can't have all these peasant types running around with guns and other assorted weaponry, unless the peasant types are under the control of the political masters in Washington (whether that control is direct or indirect).