Ending these massacres is beyond the capacity of lightly armed peacekeepers.

The United Nations, which invested only 50 unarmed police in the last peace, has promised 7,000 armed peacekeepers this time.

A smaller force, much more heavily armed than the present United Nations peacekeepers, would stay behind to enforce any agreement that was reached.

As a result, the United Nations requested armed peacekeepers to assist the relief operations.

He summarized the view now prevailing that lightly armed peacekeepers must not be sent into any more live wars.

There was little the 450 lightly armed Dutch peacekeepers could do to stop them.

He said armed French peacekeepers had been sent to keep watch on the gun.

They also leave its lightly armed peacekeepers from 17 countries chillingly exposed to public humiliation and potential slaughter.

Only 450 lightly armed peacekeepers are currently deployed in Rwanda, far too few even to assure the safety of people in the capital.

If this delegation fails, America must lead an international force of armed peacekeepers to contain the violence while international talks continue to find common ground.