By Edith M. Lederer

For months, 6,000 United Nations peacekeepers in North Kivu -- a province 1 1/2 times the size of France in a country the size of Western Europe -- have been trying to help ensure security for 1 million displaced people threatened by a rebel offensive. According to Refugees International, the U.N. Security Council handed MONUC an exceptionally complex set of tasks to accomplish but never came through with the resources or the political support to get the job done.

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