The United Nations Peacekeeping force sent to the Balkans had a horrible mission to try and fulfill l. The 1990s has gone down in history as a low mark of these operations due to what was going on in Europe, Africa, Asia. The Cambodian Civil War did end, the Lebanese C General MacKenzies Flak Vest from his time there in the Canadian War Museum ivil War also seemed to end as did the conflict in El Salvador. However as a young man, I remember seeing the news and wondering how Canadian troops were going to fare. The commanding general Lewis Mackenzie was from Truro, Nova Scotia and I remember reading his book.