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Africa Subsaharan
Bangladesh Army general to head peacekeepers in Ivory Coast
2009-12-26
Team him up with Uruguayan peacekeeping troops. What could possibly go wrong?
How about moving boundary markers? The Indians caught UN peacekeepers doing this in Kashmir.
Or they could stand guard while the other side kidnaps our soldiers and plants mines, like UN peacekeepers do between Israel and Lebanon... or merely rape local women and children of both sexes. On the other hand, the Bangladeshis I know personally are wonderful, highly educated, and seriously professional. So perhaps the good general is one of those.
Chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on defence ministry M Idris Ali has said that the United Nations will appoint a high official of Bangladesh Army as the commander of its peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast.

"The United Nations is going to appoint a Bangladeshi major general as the force commander of its peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast," Idris said yesterday while briefing journalists at Zia International Airport on his arrival from an official visit to the peacekeeping missions in Ivory Coast and Congo.

The chief of the JS body said that they visited Ivory Coast and Congo to witness the condition of the Bangladeshi peacekeepers there. They found some problems of the peacekeepers residing in Ivory Coast and Congo and would submit a report to the government with suggestions to resolve them, he added.

"Our peacekeepers in Ivory Coast and Congo have gained love and respect of the local people as well the UN by dint of their sincerity to their duties. They have brought glory for our country. We have also revealed some problems the Bangladeshi peacekeepers are facing abroad. The parliamentary standing committee on defence ministry, in the light of its findings, will make recommendations to the government to resolve the problems," Idris said.

The recommendations would include, among others, taking initiatives to provide the Bangladeshi soldiers with cheap phone call rates for talking to their near and dear ones in the country and chartering airbus to fly them home during annual vacations, he added.
Posted by:Steve White

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