(WASHINGTON) – Today U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, commented on the decision by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to include “The Life and Works of Ernesto Che Guevara” in this year’s additions to the Memory of the World Register. Statement by Ros-Lehtinen:

“UNESCO continued its longstanding tradition of making a mockery of its own institution when it opted to venerate and memorialize the life of a blood thirsty, murderous sadist, Che Guevara, by including his works as an entry in its ‘Memory of the World Register.’ This decision is more than an insult to the families of those Cubans who were lined up and summarily executed by Che and his merciless cronies but it also serves as a direct contradiction to the UNESCO ideals of encouraging peace and universal respect for human rights.

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The Global Governance thing just sucks. It brings us IPCC/ Climate Change/ AGW. Always felt that way.

UN honors Che Guevara

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You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.  The peace was negotiated by ECOWAS, and the peacekeeping forces were provided by the same.  The UN had pretty much no role, other than some envoy that was down there to take notes.  Those peacekeeping forces were the same ones that fought the RUF back when they re-took Freetown after the original truce.  Not sure if they had outside help from "Executive Outcomes or not - who are you suggesting hired these mercenaries?

http://www.refworld.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rwmain?docid=3b00f21b44

I read that link Wikipedia cites, it refers to a time even before the UN observer mission was established!  Sheesh, you're embarassing yourself.

On 23 October, the ECOWAS Committee of Five on Sierra Leone and a delegation representing the chairman of the junta held talks at Conakry and signed a peace plan which, among other things, called for a ceasefire to be monitored by ECOMOG and -- if approved by the UN Security Council -- assisted by UN military observers. On 5 November, President Kabbah issued a statement indicating his acceptance of the agreement, and stated his Government's willingness to cooperate with ECOWAS, ECOMOG, the United Nations and UNHCR in the implementation of their respective roles.

On June 1998, the Security Council established the United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone (UNOMSIL) ...

Fighting continued with the rebel alliance gaining control of more than half the country. In December 1998 the rebel alliance began an offensive to retake Freetown and in January overran most of the city.

In March 1995, Executive Outcomes (EO), a South Africa-based private military company, was hired to repel the RUF. Sierra Leone installed an elected civilian government in March 1996, and the retreating RUF signed the Abidjan Peace Accord. Under UN pressure, the government terminated its contract with EO before the accord could be implemented, and hostilities recommenced.

In May 1997 a group of disgruntled SLA officers staged a coup and established the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) as the new government of Sierra Leone.[9] The RUF joined with the AFRC to capture Freetown with little resistance. The new government, led by Johnny Paul Koroma, declared the war over. A wave of looting, rape, and murder followed the announcement

In January 1999, world leaders intervened diplomatically to promote negotiations between the RUF and the government.[11] The Lome Peace Accord, signed on 27 March 1999, was the result. Lome gave Foday Sankoh, the commander of the RUF, the vice presidency and control of Sierra Leone's diamond mines in return for a cessation of the fighting and the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force to monitor the disarmament process.


Executive Outcomes

In March 1995, with the RUF within twenty miles of Freetown, Executive Outcomes, a paramilitary group from South Africa, arrived in Sierra Leone. For $1.8 million per month (financed primarily by the International Monetary Fund), EO was paid to accomplish three goals: return the diamond and mineral mines to the government, locate and destroy the RUF’s headquarters, and operate a successful propaganda program that would encourage local Sierra Leoneans to support the government of Sierra Leone.[13] EO’s military force consisted of 500 military advisers and 3,000 highly trained and well-equipped combat-ready soldiers, backed by tactical air support and transport

The Abidjan Peace Accord mandated that Executive Outcomes was to pull out within five weeks after the arrival of a neutral peacekeeping force...

...in January 1997, the Kabbah government – beset by demands to reduce expenditures by the International Monetary Fund – ordered EO to leave the country, even though a neutral monitoring force had yet to arrive.[57] The departure of EO opened up an opportunity for the RUF to regroup for renewed military attacks...

... By the end of March 1997, the peace accord had collapsed.[61]

ECOMOG’s offensive ground to a halt just outside Freetown. ECOMOG’s forces suffered from several weakness, the most important being, poor command and control, low morale, poor training in counterinsurgency, low manpower, limited air and sea capability, and poor funding.


In January 1999 the AFRC/RUF again set upon Freetown in a bloody assault known as "Operation No Living Thing"

Unable to consistently defend itself against the AFRC/RUFrebels, the Kabbah regime was forced to make serious concessions in the Lome Peace Agreement of July 1999


Given that Nigeria was due to recall its ECOMOG forces without achieving a tactical victory over the RUF, the international community intervened diplomatically to promote negotiations between the AFRC/RUF rebels and the Kabbah regime.[77] The Lome Peace Accord, signed on 7 July 1999, is controversial in that Sankoh was pardoned for treason, granted the position of Vice President, and made chairman of the commission that oversaw Sierra Leone’s diamond mines...

... In return, the RUF was ordered to demobilize and disarm its armies under the supervision of an international peacekeeping force which would initially be under the authority of both ECOMOG and the United Nations.

In October 1999 the UN established the United Nations Mission to Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL). The main objective of UNAMSIL was to assist with the disarmament process and enforce the terms established under the Lome Peace Agreement.[11] Unlike other previous neutral peacekeeping forces, UNAMSIL brought serious military power.[citation needed] The original multi-national force was commanded by General Vijay Jetley of India.[82] Jetley later resigned and was replaced by Lieutenant General Daniel Opande of Kenya in November 2000.[83]

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He's a Sikh with a background including operations in Kashmir.

http://www.undof.unmissions.org/Default.aspx?tabid=9230&ctl=Details&mid=12279&ItemID=10442&language=en-US

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I'm not at all qualified to judge his background, so I'll ask...was he effective in Kashmir? All it really says is that he was in command of a unit there during a time of insurgency. Why the hell would he (especially being a Sikh) tell those under his command to turn over their weapons to jihadists? I just don't get it, especially if they already had UN troops taken captive.

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And yet, time and time again, UN missions are sought, pieced together, manned, and deployed.  But, the guy who gets them confused just knows they don't work.  

Feelings.... nothing more than feelings... trying to forget my... feelings of love...

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If Fijians are any thing like Samoans they be tuff

I had a couple of Samoans in my OUT class they were tireless and handled the training with ease. Tough as nails.

I don't see surrender as an option being a warrior culture and all .

Bet I'm a racist now...

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He was a junior officer at the time, and when on to make General.  I'd venture to say he must have done OK.

As for why, I already posited why.  He established contact with the nuts, they probably told him all they wanted was the weapons and territory, neither of which was worth anyone's lives from his point of view.  His mission was to inspect and observe Syrian national forces that seem to not even be in control of the region anymore. Why should he refuse to hand over weapons for his Fijians soldiers out of some sense of obligation to... what, exactly?  Not his fight.  Not the Fijians fight.  Get his men back, get the fuck away from the insanity - that would be his priority.