UN wants Bangladeshi troops for South Sudan

[Bengal_Tiger]

UN wants Bangladeshi troops for South Sudan

Star Online Report

United Nations today requested Bangladesh to send troops for its peace keeping mission for deployment in conflict-ridden country South Sudan.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon phoned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina this evening and requested to send one battalion army with enough arms and ammunition, Abul Kalam Azad, the PM's press secretary told The Daily Star.

BBC Add: UN chief Ban Ki-moon has urged the Security Council to add 5,500 UN troops to the 7,000-strong force in South Sudan, amid escalating fighting there.

His plea comes as new details emerge of alleged ethnic killings committed during more than a week of violence.

Up to 1,000 people are thought to have been killed in the fighting and UN compounds are sheltering more than 40,000 civilians.

Tens of thousands of people have fled fighting, as rebels thought to support sacked former vice-president Riek Machar have seized major towns.

UN wants Bangladeshi troops for South Sudan

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[khushal]

Bangladeshi and pakistani troops are cannon fodder for UN missions aka when western intervention fails, let the paki and bangali take the heat from the angry indigenous population.

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

Both Pakistan and Bangladesh had deployed alot of troops for UN only because they pay for them and on average they pay 4 times more than to what they are paid at home

though recently Pakistan has decided to bring back the troops from UN missions as done by india in the recent past.