Tuesday, June 12, 2012

UNMIL

Stories like this 
have always irked me since 
once upon a time 
my mom 
was one 
of those UN folks 
shot 
just going to work one day.

Liberia, Ivory Coast Disagree Over Deadly Ambush on UN

Liberia has called a deadly ambush Friday on a village across the border in Cote d'Ivoire an "act of terrorism" and has ordered the immediate closure of the border. But the Liberian government has said it cannot confirm whether the attackers came from within its territory, while the Ivorian government firmly asserts they did.

The ambush killed seven UN peackeepers, eight civilians, and a soldier.

The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) that has a 8,000-man peacekeeping force in the small West African nation, also condemned the attack. The ambush has been the most recent in a series of attacks on Ivorian villages since last year’s post election crisis that officially ended with the April 10, 2011 capture of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo.

(Source: http://tinyurl.com/cjo3cua)

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