[QUOTE]Armed men broke into a U.N. outpost in a buffer zone separating Israel and Syria and abducted three U.N military observers, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Thursday.
Herve Ladsous told a group of reporters that the unarmed observers were held by the Syrian men for about five hours and released unharmed Wednesday morning.
It was the third abduction of U.N. peacekeepers in the tense region since March and underlined again their vulnerability in the spillover of the conflict in Syria, which is now in its third year.
Ladsous called the latest abduction "a very serious incident ... that illustrates the very difficult conditions that now prevail" in and around the area separating Syrian and Israeli forces which is supposed to be free of armed groups.
The U.N. Security Council strongly condemned the abduction of the three observers by "a group of anti-government armed elements" who also looted the observation post. In a statement Thursday evening, the council called on all Syrian parties to cooperate with U.N. peacekeepers, ensure their security, and enable them to operate freely.[/QUOTE]
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Being an unarmed observer in a DMZ next to a warzone must really suck
"Yup, well that's rebels approaching"
"Yup."
"Yup."
Why would you kidnap UN troopers? I mean, they are CLEARLY peacetroopers.
Well, they might all have been monochromatic daltonics :v:
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