There is a legend in the Hindukush Mountains that reads like this: – “When Allah made the world, He was found out that there were a lot of leftovers of his creation that didn’t fit anywhere else. The Divine gathered all these fragments and threw them to Earth, and that how he created Afghanistan.” ThisContinuar lendo “Mission diary (Afghanistan)”
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UNPROFOR Airfield Monitors -Inspecting MEDEVACs
One of the (UNMO) Airfield Monitors’ tasks, in Belgrade, was to inspect and clear the airlift of medical evacuations (MEDEVAC) in/out Belgrade to in/out Bosnia. The civilians wounded in Bosnia’s war zone were flown to Belgrade in order to be assisted at the very competent and well organized Yugoslav hospital system. However, those MEDEVAC flightsContinuar lendo “UNPROFOR Airfield Monitors -Inspecting MEDEVACs”
O perfil do pessoal da Força Aérea Portuguesa
Um jovem perguntou-me como eram os tipos da Força Aérea. Respondi-lhe que o pessoal da Força Aérea era caracterizado por ser alguém (homem ou mulher) que está disponível “à mínima solicitação”, demonstrando “força e grandeza de ânimo” e que actua “com militar engenho e sutil arte”. Alguém que procura “saber para bem servir”, que sabeContinuar lendo “O perfil do pessoal da Força Aérea Portuguesa”
Nobel Peace Prize to the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
If war is the ultimate chaos unleashed to deliberately exercise extreme human cruelty, peacekeepers are the extraordinary glimmer of humanity and hope. War is the most extreme of the human experiences, which last in the human mind as ghosts as the International Crime Court for former Yugoslavia put it: – “This was terrible. The screams.Continuar lendo “Nobel Peace Prize to the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces”
Blue Helmets casualties of COVID 19
UN Secretary-General – António Guterres – announced the first two Blue Helmet fatal casualties of COVID 19. At the present date, among the 100.000 blue Helmets in 14 missions all over the world, there are 137 cases of CVID 19 among the peacekeepers. MINUSMA (Mali) 90 infected, 53 recovered, 2 dead MONUSCO (D.R. Congo) 21Continuar lendo “Blue Helmets casualties of COVID 19”
Peacekeeping in a War zone
The year was 1995 and the UN mission was UNPROFOR – United Nations Protection Force – for the Former Yugoslav conflicts. At that time, it was the most complex, most dangerous, and most expensive UN mission ever done, with a budget of 1.6 trillion US Dollars, and the task of: “… interim arrangement to createContinuar lendo “Peacekeeping in a War zone”
Bosnia 95 – Peacekeeping in a War Zone (extracts)
When analyzing the war in the former Yugoslavia, there’s a point that always comes highlighted: There were weapons everywhere, some of it of a highly sophistication. One can’t help asking, where did all those weapons come from?! Marshal Tito had created the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), under the spectrum of the Cold War.Continuar lendo “Bosnia 95 – Peacekeeping in a War Zone (extracts)”
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BOSNIA 95 – Peacekeeping in a War Zone
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Peacekeepers day (29May) Dia dos Capacetes Azuis
72 years ago, on the 29th May 1948, the United Nations Security Council approved the deployment of a Group of Military Observers (UNMO) to Middle East, tasked to observe and maintain the ceasefire during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. In 2003, the UN General Assembly decided that this date (29 May) should be considered the “InternationalContinuar lendo “Peacekeepers day (29May) Dia dos Capacetes Azuis”
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