Madam, - David Adams's superbly crafted column, "Woeful record of the UN" (Opinion, June 10th) should be compulsive reading for all who still believe the United Nations has a meaningful role to play in world affairs.
Mr Adams quite rightly points out that, since its foundation, the UN has been powerless to prevent the deaths of millions of innocent people who perished in what he calls "state-sponsored murder".
Today millions of women and children are pleading for protection in northern Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Darfur, but the UN, as so often in the past, is more concerned about the sovereignty of national borders than with the sovereignty of the human being.
State-sponsored murder remains the greatest tragedy being enacted on our planet today. And sadly the world does not have an entity capable of preventing it. - Yours, etc,
JOHN O'SHEA, GOAL, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin.