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Join our email list: Providing UN's Peacekeepers - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council. Washington PostNovember 15, 2000 As recently as the early 1990s, American and European soldiers formed the backbone of U.N. forces trying to keep the peace in Cambodia, Somalia and the Balkans.
But today, U.N. peacekeeping largely is subcontracted to Third World soldiers who endure the physical risk while rich countries bear the financial cost. This situation, which has developed gradually as the United States and other developed countries have scaled back their involvement in U.N. missions, increasingly is under attack as unfair.