Mr. Colm Doyle:

When I served in Bosnia, one of the parties, the Bosnian Serbs, used to take United Nations personnel hostage. They would manacle them to their defensive positions and then dare personnel from NATO or the United Nations to come to try to rescue them. This was the first time that I had seen United Nations soldiers being purposely kidnapped and used as an invitation to target them. Shortly after that, the UN decided that an attack on a UN soldier is an attack against humanity. It has been evolving as we have gone along. As was pointed out, most United Nations missions now are peace enforcement missions, because of necessity. If we look at the percentage of casualties, in the First World War, a certain number were civilians, but in modern conflicts they make up the largest number of casualties, at about 85%.