U.N. hails Indian peacekeepers

UNITED NATIONS, MAY 16. Indian and Kenyan troops in Sierra Leone came in for high praise from a top United Nations official, who said they never surrendered even when surrounded by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels and reacted when under attack.

The Indian and Kenyan troops had been sent to the north of the country in areas which were held by the RUF and where no one had gone earlier, said the Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Affairs, Mr. Bernard Miyet, who has just returned from Sierra Leone.

``Those troops, from Indian and Kenya, had the necessary equipment and motivation, never surrendered and always reacted when their forces were under attack,'' he told reporters here. Indian and Kenyan troops had maintained presence in cities in the RUF-held areas where no multinational force or Government presence had ventured before.

- PTI

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