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UN forces freed in Sierra Leone
UN forces freed in Sierra Leone
FREETOWN, July 15 : A UN military mission today freed 233 UN forces who had been blockaded in eastern Sierra Leone for more than two months by rebels, the UN mission said, reports AFP.
Troops with the UN mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMS1L) launched an attack Saturday against figliters of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) to rescue the troops held In Kallahun. said the UN information service In Freetown.
It said the UN soldiers who had been surrounded in Kallahun. 300 km east of the capital, were heading for Daru. about 30 km away.
The operation was led by Major General Vijay Jetley from India with troops from Ghana. Nigeria and India, said UNAMSIL
No details of casualties were given.
Earlier, some 200 UN soldiers in eastern Sierra Leone opened fire Saturday on rebels that have encircled them for two months, as civilians In the north fled attacks from rebels, themselves under fire from army helicopters.
Troops with the UN mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) in Kallahun, 300 km east of the capital, struck at surrounding rebels from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), a UN spokeswoman told AFP in Freetown.
At the same time, a group of I 1 military observers serving
with the unit were airlifted to the capital by helicopter. Hirut Befecadu added.
She said that the UNAMSIL unit had broken the rebels' ring around Kallahun after they refused to provide UN troops with food and medicine, and that fighting was ongoing.
Meanwhile, civilians fled alleged atrocities by rebels regrouping In the northern re-glonal capital of Samu, near the border with Guinea, where the rebels were coming under frequent attack by helicopter gunships.
"The rebels continuously threatened us with death. Rapes are so common that the cries of women and young girls arc no longer strange, particularly at night.' said Mohamed Finnoh, one of those who fled.
The agony is unbearable. Rebels are now torturing civilians to force them to give Information about their neighbours as to whether they are spying f°r the government." farmer Morlal Sesay told AFP
Once-thriving (owns in the region are now deserted.
To the east, the UN operation was being directed from Daru by the UNAMSIL commander, Indian Major General Vijay Kumar Jetley. a press official said.
It included troops from Ghana. India, and Nigeria.
"We received messages of distress. and in light of the slocks of food and medicine on site, (here was no alternative to the military option," a UNAMSIL official said.