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Nordic Journal of International Law 77 (2008) 175–179 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI 10.1163/090273508X290744 www.brill.nl/nord Book Review O. Engdahl, Protection of Personnel in Peace Operations: Th e Role of the ‘Safety Convention’ Against the Background of General International Law (Brill, Leiden, 2007) ISBN: 97 890 04 15 46 67, pages 357. In May 2003, in a remote location called Mongbwalu in the violent district of Ituri, two military observers of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) were brutally tortured and mur- dered. 1 Some days prior to their assassination, the military observers sent desper- ate radio messages to MONUC calling for their immediate evacuation. Th e event is recapitulated in Le Prix de la Paix , a Canadian documentary on MONUC, to illustrate the deteriorating security situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in mid-2003 which eventually led the Security Council to authorize a reinforced and robust military deployment in the region. It is with the tragic fate of the two MONUC military observers in mind that I commence reading Ola Engdahl’s book Protection of Personnel in Peace Operations: Th e Role of the ’Safety Convention’ Against
Nordic Journal of International Law – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2008
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