[QUOTE]Armed men detained four UN peacekeepers on patrol on the Golan Heights in a tense area that separates Syria and Israel, the UN said Tuesday. A rebel group claimed it was holding the peacekeepers.
It was the second time in two months that unarmed UN military observers have been taken captive, and illustrated again the vulnerability of the UN peacekeeping mission amid the spillover from the war in Syria.
Kieran Dwyer, spokesman for the UN peacekeeping department, said the four peacekeepers, all from the Philippines, were taken by an unidentified armed group near Jamla on Tuesday. “Efforts are underway to secure their release now,” he said.
A spokesman for the rebel group holding the four peacekeepers said in a phone interview with The Associated Press that at least three of the UN staffers are from the Philippines. He said the rebel unit holding them is called the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigades and the group is operating in the Golan Heights.
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The rebel unit said that it suspects that peacekeepers are believed to be shielding Syrian President Bashar Assad's troops who the rebels said killed civilians during an army sweep of Wadi Raqat, a town in southern Syria.
The UN monitoring mission, known as UNDOF, was set up in 1974, seven years after Israel captured the Golan and a year after it managed to push back Syrian troops trying to recapture the territory in another regional war.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/05/07/four_un_peacekeepers_detained_in_syria_unclear_by_whom.html[/url]
Again?
How are they constantly being taken...
they are the UN, and the rebels dont really give a damn about the international community because they are....rebels
It's getting sort of irrelevant who wins this civil war when incidents like these keep happening.
[QUOTE=777ecnatsiser;40559748]How are they constantly being taken...[/QUOTE]
They are unarmed when they are taken.
They think the UN peacekeepers are shielding Assad. Basically they're uneducated.
[QUOTE=777ecnatsiser;40559748]How are they constantly being taken...[/QUOTE]
UN ROE's are a bitch.
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