bourne2y:

Precisely. Why won’t UN go after them?

As I said, because the UN doesn’t have a mandate to “go after them” – or in fact the capacity. There aren’t UN “military police” in every country around the world, ready to arrest lawbreaking peacekeepers, because nobody would accept such a thing, least of all the US. If you want to start by writing to the government of Bangladesh, whose forces appear to be heavily implicated, then go ahead.

But UN hides from this responsibility. So someone else has to do it.

I couldn’t agree more, and that “someone else” is the government of the contributing country, and at a stretch the Security Council that mandates these operations.

Let’s get something straight. This type of abuse happens a lot, it is not acceptable, and the UN has not addressed it sufficiently. But let’s try and propose measures that will actually have a positive impact on the lives of people in places like Sudan, rather than just more criticism that completely misses the point.