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UNPROFOR

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UNPROFORUnited Nations Protection Force


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For example, the zone of responsibility for Canadian Battalion 2 (CANBAT 2) deployed in Bosnia under UNPROFOR (93-95) was 900 square kilometres, for the battalion deployed under UNMIH (96-97) it was half the Island of Haiti), and for the most recent unit deployed in Afghanistan it is over 50,000 square kilometres.
In January 1992, UN Protection Force (UNPROFOR) was deployed to ensure implementation of peace agreements, initially in Croatia (to protect Serbian concentrated settlements) and then (in July 1992), in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where UNPROFOR had more than 23,000 servicemen.
They looked at the armed UNPROFOR soldiers with their bullet-proof jackets and wondered why these "astronauts" had come there and why Bosnia had to suffer so much.
 
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