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The United Nations mission to bring peace to the Democratic Republic of the Congo is doomed to failure, Lewis MacKenzie said Sunday.
The retired major-general said the UN force is not strong enough to control the warring factions.
"If you're going to get involved, then you have to take enough to do the job. In other words, if you're going to a knife fight, you take a gun. You need more than the enemy has."
Retired Gen. Maurice Baril is leaving for the Congo Monday. He is going to help the UN peacekeeping effort by trying to integrate soldiers from the different militias into one national army.
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At this moment, they need outside help, outside advice, and of course outside pressure to come to a compromise," he said.
- FROM JUNE 14, 2003: Baril optimistic about Congo mission
Baril said he was confident the mission would succeed, perhaps in weeks.
The UN is planning to send up to 10,000 troops to the Congo. French soldiers are already in the northeast provincial capital of Bunia. They are directed to stop the fighting that has recently killed hundreds of people.
The population has been devastated by years of fighting.
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