As in past peacekeeping operations. the U.N. started from scratch. An estimated $200 million was needed. but only a fraction of that was raised. In the meantime. hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered. and the international community is now spending hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars to feed and care for refugees. and to deal with the myriad of difficult problems Rwanda faces in the wake of the genocide. Not until the arrival of a small contingent of wellarmed French troops. did the mayhem wane. Peacekeeping. or some combination of peacekeeping and peacemaking. which in Rwandalike situations I would prefer to call peacekeeping with muscle. could not only have saved thousands of innocent Rwandan lives. it could also have saved money.
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