It’s a matter of judgment. And in the end the UN commander supervising peacekeepers in the Golan Heights did the right thing. This was the assertion made by Hervé Ladsous, UN Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations following allegations by the Philippine military that the commander of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) put the Filipino troops in danger when he ordered them to surrender their weapons to Syrian rebels last week. Ladsous insisted the Filipino peacekeepers were merely ordered to “leave the weapons quiet” and not surrender them. Earlier, the Philippine military said it wanted the incident investigated.
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