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UN Mali Mission


In the Netherlands there is a lot of fuzz about the UN mission to Mali because  the Dutch army will cooperate. Today the first soldiers will depart to Mali for the start-up of the mission. On December 12th of the previous year the majority of our government voted in favour of the Mali mission  therefore  the soldiers  are now heading for Mali.

Like mentioned above, on December 12th 2012 the government agreed with the Mali Mission, however the SP (Socialist Party), the PVV (Freedom Party), and the PvdD (Animal Rights Party) opposed. The SP claimed that humanitarian support was much better than military support and Harry van Bommel (SP) said that the element of humanitarian support was missing in the Mali United Nations mission. The PVV said that it was not the task of the Dutch military to help the UN this time but that Algeria or Morocco should help. The members of parliament of the Second Chamber thought this to be quite peculiar because Muslim terror is one of the main priorities of the PVV and  they could not understand why the PVV did not take the opportunity to fight Muslim extremism this time.

Furthermore there was the problem of the military suits. The uniforms that are produced in the Netherlands were too expensive for the military. Therefore they ordered the uniforms in China, which were a lot cheaper. However the Chinese suits are very fire sensitive. The chairman of the VBM (Union for Military and Civil Defence Personnel)  stated that if a roadside bomb would explode an uniform which is inflammable in 2 minutes (Chinese) or 5 minutes (Dutch) could make an enormous difference. The weirdest thing is that the American army buys their uniforms in the Netherlands because the Dutch  uniforms are one of the best.


All together, the Mali mission will be one of the biggest current UN mission. There are multiple countries involved and the mission target is to gain back order???? and prevent chaos in the failed state of Mali, a nation that is totally being ripped apart. I do hope that the fighting will reduced to a minimum and that the mission will be executed as safely as possible for the civilians in Mali, who are already the victims of this situation.  
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