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It is now officially recognized as a war injury, and Canada has set up centers for educating peacekeepers about stress and treating it early.

Suleiman Sandal, a rebel commander, said his forces were anticipating a government attack on the town and had warned peacekeepers about the possibility.

Excluding peacekeepers, about 240 civilian United Nations workers have died in the line of duty since 1992 in places from Rwanda and East Timor to Somalia and Kosovo.

There was similar criticism last week when, according to residents, Congolese government troops ransacked parts of Goma, raping women and killing children, and United Nations peacekeepers about a mile away did little to stop them.

Under the agreement, which was witnessed by Thabo Mbeki, the former South African president who has played the role of mediator, an armored brigade of Ethiopian peacekeepers, about 4,000 troops, will patrol Abyei and be a buffer between the northern and southern armies.

After the fall of the town, on July 11, some 30,000 people amassed in the area around the peacekeepers' base, and about 5,000 refugees, including 239 men of military age, were allowed to stay within the walls of the United Nations compound.

Peacekeepers handed over about 5,000 Muslims who had been sheltering at the Dutch base at Potocari.

I covered mostly local news, government meetings, environmental issues, but I had the opportunity to go to Bosnia and embed with the peacekeepers for about 10 days in 1998.

The latest plan is to withdraw some 2,000 peacekeepers from about a third of the country's provinces, including Équateur, by the end of June and to remove the whole lot by August next year after the hoped-for election.

Military officials from the United States, criticized for not doing enough in Sierra Leone, have been training West African peacekeepers, and about 1,500 American-trained Nigerian soldiers are now in Sierra Leone, including here in Makeni, a rebel stronghold.

Syrian rebels who claimed to have kidnapped a group of UN peacekeepers did an about-face as they said they were in fact rescuing them from danger, in an incident that has thrown a light on escalating violence in a supposed demilitarised zone on the Israeli border.