Three missing Cambodian peacekeepers found dead in CAR
Poor blokes and family. RIP.
I was just wondering if they spoke any English (doubtful) as that would have been the only way they could have communicated with their captors. How traumatising for them frantically trying to talk to them to no avail.
(Just an idle thought don't go all OML on my ass and say it's irrelevant.)
I was just wondering if they spoke any English (doubtful) as that would have been the only way they could have communicated with their captors. How traumatising for them frantically trying to talk to them to no avail.
(Just an idle thought don't go all OML on my ass and say it's irrelevant.)
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I'd guess that they could speak English, but it wouldn't be a lot of use in CAR which is a Francophone country.YaTingPom wrote:
I was just wondering if they spoke any English (doubtful) as that would have been the only way they could have communicated with their captors. How traumatising for them frantically trying to talk to them to no avail.
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GB8 wrote:Not to make light of the tragic death of Cambodian soldiers, but I'm currently visiting the US. I find it quite horrifying. Slept though a police raid this morning. No warrant, searched the house and garage looking for a truant high school student who doesn't even live here, just uses this address to attend a good school.
I lived in the USA for 30 years, never had police raid where I lived. What kind of place are you staying?
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English is spoken everywhere.Lucky Lucan wrote:I'd guess that they could speak English, but it wouldn't be a lot of use in CAR which is a Francophone country.YaTingPom wrote:
I was just wondering if they spoke any English (doubtful) as that would have been the only way they could have communicated with their captors. How traumatising for them frantically trying to talk to them to no avail.
Anyhow. Sad.
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I wouldn't bet on it in formerly French parts of Africa.YaTingPom wrote: English is spoken everywhere.
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Agreed, sorry was riffing off the "horrifying country" remarkk.kLucky Lucan wrote:Yeah, I don't get it either. Way off-topic, it should be moved to the 3AM thread.
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As I mentioned, not beheaded and nothing to do with ISIS.backhome wrote:I heard on the radio the other day that one was beheaded and 3 were missing, then were later found dead. That is too bad. I wanted to know where any other Cambodian UN peacekeepers are deployed. I know there were some in South Sudan previously. Is that info public?
Central African Republic looks like a dreadful place. Is that one that gavinmac has already been too? Mustn't be a more horrifying place than that?
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wi ... c-47290536
http://m.phnompenhpost.com/national/cen ... ign=buffer
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YTP has obviously never been to France or any of its ex-colonies .Lucky Lucan wrote:I wouldn't bet on it in formerly French parts of Africa.YaTingPom wrote: English is spoken everywhere.
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They expect you to speak French!Hanno wrote:YTP has obviously never been to France or any of its ex-colonies .Lucky Lucan wrote:I wouldn't bet on it in formerly French parts of Africa.YaTingPom wrote: English is spoken everywhere.
Thank you. All's I said was I heard he was beheaded on VOA. It was widely reported that way initially. And you can see my post was from a few days ago, reflecting the info available at that time. And there was never any mention of ISIS in anything I said, but I do appreciate the clarification.PSD_Kiwi wrote:As I mentioned, not beheaded and nothing to do with ISIS.backhome wrote:I heard on the radio the other day that one was beheaded and 3 were missing, then were later found dead. That is too bad. I wanted to know where any other Cambodian UN peacekeepers are deployed. I know there were some in South Sudan previously. Is that info public?
Central African Republic looks like a dreadful place. Is that one that gavinmac has already been too? Mustn't be a more horrifying place than that?
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wi ... c-47290536
http://m.phnompenhpost.com/national/cen ... ign=buffer
Yikes - had forgotten about the bully / know-it-all's on here.LexusSchmexus wrote:Of course it's public, they're UN missions. Do you think the Cambodian military has black sites all over the world?backhome wrote:I wanted to know where any other Cambodian UN peacekeepers are deployed. I know there were some in South Sudan previously. Is that info public?
Central African Republic looks like a dreadful place. Is that one that gavinmac has already been too? Mustn't be a more horrifying place than that?
I think they might still be some in Lebanon. A lot of them have served there in the past and the mission is ongoing. Or maybe they've shifted them all to the CAR. You can use Google and find out which troops are posted where, not exactly complicated.
http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/contr ... ar17_3.pdf
Central African Republic
Mali
Sudan
Lebanon
South Sudan
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If country send troops to UN operation as soldier every country make contract own policy way. UN pay pay some of costs, but most of salaries and insurance deals depends countries.Gin&Tonic wrote:I'm sure the UN job comes with a generous life insurance policy
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UN straight jobs like most of barangs in Cambodia make contract straight to some of UN suborganisation and usually that kind of contract have insurances and other benefits, but it depends again many things.
You may wonder why Cambodian soldiers work now overseas UN operations, just some decades later when they need so much similar support in Cambodia. Answer is simple, they have latest experience demining and uxos in field. Yes, now every duch, canadian, brits and manyother say they training them and its true. But they used last tecnics in real field on Cambodia and now they use that experiece.
I guess somewhere can find list of operations where Cambodian troops work on UN operations. There is diffrent kind of operations, operations just with Cambodian deminers part of multinational troops and operations where have other professonials. If remember right nurses and doctors allso work some operations. I haven't work years in field, but still meet time after time old collegues and belive things havent change much after my time.
Here one old story from Cyprus: http://www.voanews.com/a/daniel-craig-d ... 04044.html
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I think you're being a bit selective. Cambodian deminers, as you say, were trained by foreigners. Furthermore, Americans, Brits, Canadians and Dutch have been actively demining and dealing with IEDs on a daily basis in war zones such as Afghanistan/Irak while getting shot at. Most of these countries simply don't contribute to UN missions anymore. That being said, EOD teams are constantly exchanging experience and ideas with each other. For example, recently the first Cambodian underwater EOD specialists were trained. American experts also come to Cambodia and Cambodians show them how they do stuff here. Every time there's a new development in IEDs in Afghanistan or Iraq, OED teams share what they've learned with each other as the enemy is also always adapting. It's a constantly evolving field and the experts of different nations help contribute to broader knowledge and help each other through their own experiences. Cambodian deminers do bring a wealth of knowledge to the field and give hope to other countries which are heavily mined that there might be a brighter future. They're doing good work and I for one find it nice that Cambodia is giving back to the UN after the UN gave so much to Cambodia (literally and figuratively).
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