Besides United Nations let us down in the most critical hours following the coup of 2000. During the morning of that June 5, 2000 (Monday), an urgent email sent to Australia pleading for immediate intervention, was thrown in to the bin by the irresponsible government of John Howard. The ethnic conflict was dubbed (by Australia) a dispute between two brothers; a simple and polite way of saying, who cares!
The UN was also reluctant to intervene in Solomon Islands. No UN developed countries saw our situation as a threat to their own economic and military security. Our plea, for support, like the East Timor situation, went unanswered till it was too late. Our calls for UN support and intervention, were diverted to a worthless Commonwealth of England he did nothing but sending a police commissioner, and to two neighboring countries (Australia and NZ) who deliberately turned a blind eye to our situation. It took more than a thousand days (3 years) to rally nations in the Pacific Islands - including the tiniest country in the world, Tuvalu - to intervene to Solomon Islands. After almost a hundred lives lost, tens of thousands displaced, a collapsed economy, and a nation deeply wounded, they finally came.
If the UN treated our ethnic conflict as nothing but a nuisance, why should Solomon Islands' jump up and support the UN peace keeping efforts in the world? Why should our officers risked their lives in places around the world that are of no significant interest or contribution to us? Is it because of money? Is UN going to pay Solomon Islands' for this? And what benefit(s) would a handful of officers bring to our country from this UN peace keeping program?
It simply unrealistic. Our government should not jump into this wagon just for the fun of it, or to simply convey a message that SI is capable - by a huge stretch of imagine - of joining the UN peace keeping family. This proposal is nothing but an experimental stunt.
No comments:
Post a Comment