United Nations: Despite being outnumbered, Indian peacekeepers fought with valour and prevented more casualties in the recent attack against a UN peacekeeping convoy that killed five Indian soldiers in South Sudan, a senior UN official said on Sunday. Assistant Secretary General for Field Support, United Nations, Anthony Banbury travelled to Jonglei state in South Sudan and met the Indian contingent in the wake of the April 9 attack that killed five Indian peacekeepers including a Lieutenant Colonel and five civilian UN staff contractors.
Banbury, who received a briefing by the contingent commander about the incident, said the attackers numbered around 150-200 while only 35 Indian soldiers were escorting the convoy. "It was clear that this was an unprovoked, unjustified and deliberate ambush against the convoy. The Indian soldiers fought with great professionalism, bravery and distinction," Banbury said from the South Sudanese capital of Juba.
He said the Indian soldiers showed "gallantry" in defending themselves and the civilians in the convoy adding that the number of deaths on the UN side would have been "much worse" had the Indian soldiers not fought with "such determination and professionalism." Banbury said the Indian peacekeepers in the UN mission in South Sudan are "upset" at the loss of their comrades but "they will continue to carry on their work in a professional and dedicated manner. We are lucky to have the Indian soldiers in our peacekeeping operations."
"In terms of the morale and feeling of the contingent, we were all very
08:56 PM, Apr 14, 2013
New York: Members of the UN Security Council have condemned in the strongest terms the killing of five Indian peacekeepers in South Sudan and asked that the perpetrators be brought to justice. The members condemned the April 9 attack by unidentified armed persons on a UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) convoy in Jonglei, South Sudan, in which five Indian peacekeepers and at least seven civilians were killed, said a...
11:50 AM, Apr 10, 2013
It's almost a week of flared tensions between India and Pakistan. Across the Line of Control, fresh firing has been reported from eight posts, and even as India tried to de-escalate the tension, the Pakistan foreign office on Friday summoned the Indian envoy, issuing him a demarche over the killing of a Pakistani soldier in incidents of firing on Thursday evening. ...
08:13 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Calling the killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistan Army an "isolated incident", a senior Pakistani senator on Friday said such events should not be allowed to "spin out of control" which could result in vitiating the atmosphere of peace. ...
07:47 PM, Jan 11, 2013
The India-Pakistan tension after the killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops is showing signs of escalating. India claimed that Pakistan opened unprovoked firing in Poonch and Mendhar on Thursday. The exchange in Poonch lasted for almost 2 hours. ...
07:52 AM, Jan 11, 2013
What should be India's reaction to Pakistan's ceasefire violation, killing of Indian soldiers on the Indian side of the Line of Control and mutilation of a soldier's body? The director of centre for land warfare studies Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal shared his perspective in an interaction with IBNLive readers. ...
05:50 PM, Jan 10, 2013
The bodies of the two jawans killed by the Pakistan army were brought to Delhi on Wednesday. They will be cremated with state honour. ...
09:57 PM, Jan 09, 2013
India has lodged a strong protest of the serious ceasefire violations and mutilation of two Indian soldiers by Pakistan. India also summoned Pakistan's High Commissioner, Salman Bashir, and Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai talked tough on the issue. ...
07:33 PM, Jan 09, 2013
In a major escalation to the ceasefire violations and infiltration attempts, a group of Pakistan Army soldiers raided across the Line of Control in Mendhar Sector and killed two Indian soldiers and injured one more. The Pakistani troops attacked an area domination patrol party of the Indian Army. In the ensuing gunfight two Indian soldiers were killed and the body of one of them mutilated by the intruders. ...
06:32 PM, Jan 08, 2013
Haifa (Israel): While remaining unknown in their own country, some Indian soldiers will become household names in Haifa in northern Israel after figuring in the history textbooks taught at schools for their contribution in liberating this city in 1918. The municipality of Haifa has gone ahead with its decision to immortalise the sacrifices made by Indian soldiers, many of whom are buried in the cemetery here, by including the stories...
02:20 PM, Sep 23, 2012
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The program that aired on CNN-IBN a couple of months back irked my mind. Anubha Bhonsle's "30 minutes" show focused on the Army officer's latest ...
03:05 PM, Aug 20, 2011
