Judging by this Belmont Club rundown on the Congolese civil war, which may have killed more people than the Rwandan genocide it is related to, one has to wonder if UN peacekeeping is a worse scandal than UN sanctions administration. At least far fewer people died in the oil-for-graft program than in the UN mediated genocide in the Congo.
One has to ask. I know there are War Crimes, are there Peace Crimes? Is there any body of law that holds people accountable for allowing genocide to continue while they are duty-bound to stop it? Does Kofi and company have more to look forward to than resignation and retirement?
A couple things I've noticed about the Blue Helmets: they're so rarely there when the oppressed need them, and when they do show up they're as likely as not to be fighting on the wrong side.
While not minimizing the horrendous Congolese civil war, the effects of the Oil-for-Food scandal cannot be overestimated. It proved disastrous for the Iraqi people, for the region, and beyond. The tens of billions Saddam scammed out of the program and used for nefarious purposes at home and abroad, will for many decades have a blighting effect in the region, and in the wider global war on terror.