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Ukraine: Bad UN rules of engagement in Kosovo killed Ukrainian cop
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 20 - 03 - 2008

A senior official in Kiev blamed poor rules of
engagement given United Nations peacekeepers for the death of a
Ukrainian policemen in Kosovo, the Interfax news agency reported
Thursday, according to dpa.
Yury Lutsenko, Ukraine's Interior Minister, said strict UN rules
forbidding international force members to use their weapons in almost
all circumstances caused the Sunday death of police senior lieutenant
Ihor Kinal.
"This is absolutely unacceptable, and it will lead to further loss
of Ukrainian lives," Lutsenko said. "This policy (of making it
impossible for Ukrainian service personnel to defend themselves)
cannot be allowed to continue.
Kinal died in the Kosovo city Mitrovica on March 17 after he and
his unit were attacked by ethnic Serbs throwing stones and Molotov
cocktails. Ukrainian news reports described his injuries as
"life-threatening fragmentation wounds."
More than 100 people, including as many as 33 foreign
peacekeepers were injured in six hours of rioting in the city, begun
when a mob stormed a courthouse guarded by KFOR and UN police.
A second peacekeeper, also a Ukrainian, was seriously injured and
sent home for hospital treatment. Another seven Ukrainians were being
treated in Mitrovica hospitals, according to the report.
The Serbian activists during six hours of rioting also used fire
arms and hand grenades against some peacekeepers, according to a KFOR
spokesman.
Lutsenko rejected a UN statement made shortly after the incidents
noting peacekeepers are allowed to use their weapons in self-defence.
A locally-imposed standing order among KFOR and UN peacekeepers
authorise the use of weapons in self defence "only after the first
injury," Lutsenko claimed.
The UN's allegedly poor rules of engagement make necessary the
transfer of Ukrainian peacekeepers in Kosovo from UN to KFOR command,
Lutsenko said.
"We really need to take a serious look at how much sense it makes
for (Ukrainian troops) to remain under UN command," he said. "A
transfer to (KFOR command) would improve their safety."
Ukraine currently maintains 187 peacekeepers in Kosovo. Kinal was
the first-ever to die since the former Soviet republic began
contributing soldiers to peacekeeping operations in 1994.


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