DHAKA: At the least six Bangladeshi peacekeepers had been killed, and eight had been injured, in a drone assault on a United Nations base in Abyei, Sudan, the Bangladesh Military mentioned on Saturday (Dec 13).
“The state of affairs within the space remains to be unstable, and clashes with terrorists are ongoing,” it mentioned in a press release, including that the authorities had been doing their finest to supply medical therapy and rescue operations for these injured.
Bangladesh is without doubt one of the largest contributors to UN peacekeeping missions, and its troops have lengthy been deployed in Abyei, a unstable area disputed between Sudan and South Sudan.
All of the victims are Bangladeshi nationals, serving within the UN Interim Safety Power for Abyei, UNISFA.
“Assaults focusing on United Nations peacekeepers could represent warfare crimes beneath worldwide regulation,” mentioned UN Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres, who known as for these accountable for the “unjustifiable” assault to be held to account.
The Sudanese army blamed the assault on the Fast Help Forces, a infamous paramilitary group at warfare with the military for the management of the nation for greater than two years.
The assault “clearly reveals the subversive method of the insurgent militia and people behind it,” the army mentioned in a press release.
