When are we going to learn that this model does not work? The very important endeavor to feed people and provide medical assistance to displaced persons is a great undertaking and well worth any risk for the benefit it can provide desperate people. Yet, for the vastness of its resources and the access the UN has to military assistance, it is incapable of doing anything beyond relief work in these scenarios. The model being used today is like trying to treat a .45 gunshot wound with a bandaid.
Renewed fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province today has forced the United Nations refugee agency to halt the distribution of aid to internally displaced persons and to call off a drive to register newly displaced people in the Rutshuru area.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) suspended operations after reports of new fighting between Government soldiers and fighters from the rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) near the Kinyandoni Anglican IDP site in North Kivu. Clashes on Saturday and Sunday left at least one woman dead.
There needs to be a great deal of reform in the UN itself, so that people can actually look at these issues holistically and come to some better solution from the international community.
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