The Fourth Disaster Begins at the Dawn of the Millennium

“Oh damn!”

As the convoy got closer and closer to Freetown, the scenery on the road changed. The tropical rainforest gradually receded, replaced by an open wasteland with only scattered bushes and dry grass. On the horizon, the outline of the city was vaguely visible. That was their destination and the safe haven for countless Sierra Leoneans (in fact, even the capital has become a living hell several times, but the places outside the capital are more terrifying).

In the car, the company commander once again called out to the crew members via the radio:

"All of you, soldiers, listen carefully, especially those who dozed off during the mission briefing. The following content may save your life. In Sierra Leone, our mission is to protect the President, the government residence and the United Nations advance mission in Sierra Leone. Here, you will encounter some difficult problems that you have never encountered before.

First, in some cases, you may need to shoot minors, that is, child soldiers here! This is to complete the mission and for your own safety. An AK47 in the hands of a child is just as deadly as an AK47 in the hands of an adult! Don't expect these child soldiers to surrender by shouting at them. They are probably taking drugs when they fight, and they are irrational. "

Generally speaking, it is difficult for people to associate innocent children with ruthless executioners. However, in the civil war in Sierra Leone, war changed human nature and forced children to become bloody murderers.

Whenever the rebels captured these children, they threatened them with death and forced them to commit horrific murders. They even forced these minors to rape their mothers and sisters and then kill their own relatives. If any minor flinched when killing his or her relatives, he or she would be immediately executed by the rebels.

Once on the battlefield, the rebels forced them to take drugs to boost their spirits and courage, and cut a hole in each person's temple with a knife, injected the drugs through this hole, and then covered it with adhesive plaster or tape. As a result, these child soldiers were armed with pistols, rifles and machetes, actively participated in killing and massacres, cut off other children's arms, and even killed people continuously for three days without mercy.

"Secondly, keep your pants on and don't try to have a short-term relationship here! Because AIDS, syphilis and gonorrhea are rampant here!"

The civil war destroyed Sierra Leone's basic medical care. Years of civil war have led to unprecedented rape and gang rape of local women. Whether they are young girls or old ladies, women from 5 to 75 years old have almost all become objects of animal desire. This has led to the large-scale spread of sexually transmitted diseases in Sierra Leone, which can be said to have reached the point of flooding. The medical supplies carried by the advance team of Giant God Security should be allocated more to battlefield first aid, as well as the prevention and treatment of malaria, dengue fever, and yellow fever. It is impossible to allocate too much precious medical supplies to treat sexually transmitted diseases.

Therefore, even Americans who like to be "romantic" must be honest and be "puritans" here!

As the convoy drove into the suburbs of Freetown, the surrounding scene gradually changed. The dilapidated shacks were replaced by slightly more solid brick houses, and there were more and more pedestrians on the streets. The jeep stopped in front of a checkpoint, and after confirming its identity, the jeep slowly passed through and continued to drive towards the center of the city.

"Finally...Finally, I don't have anything else to tell you. I believe in your fighting ability, so I can only remind you that your words and deeds represent Giant God Company! The world will use your actions as their first impression of Giant God Company. Soldiers, don't bring shame to the honor of Giant God Company!"

Chapter 198 The First Contract from the United Nations

The jeep stopped steadily in front of a simple but solid building. The soldiers quickly jumped out of the car and began to unload their equipment. There was no extra expression on the soldiers' faces, only concentration and vigilance. Because the company commander Jamal (game player ID) told them:

"Don't think that the Lomé Peace Agreement signed by the Kabbah government and Sankoh is something useful. If it were useful, why would they hire us? That piece of paper is just a temporary ceasefire because everyone is tired of fighting (Britain and the United States: I am tired too, I still have to deal with Kosovo). As long as the troops led by Sankoh do not surrender all their weapons, Freetown may become a battlefield at any time, so you must also be prepared for battle at any time."

In general, every inch of land in the capital of a country is worth a lot of money. However, in Freetown, because both sides of the civil war have repeatedly ravaged the capital, the United Nations and the Sierra Leone government only need to spend a little money to buy a large area in the center of the city as the base for Giant Security.

However, in addition to the good location and large space, the situation of the base itself did not satisfy Giant God Security. These buildings were too fragile and could be easily destroyed by various bullets and individual rockets. The soldiers of Giant God Security could not sleep well here. Therefore, Giant God Security absolutely made a major modification here...

"Quick, unfold the modular wall we brought!"

Several soldiers quickly took action. They unloaded rolls of mesh cages that formed the riot wall from the truck and dragged them to the designated location. After the mesh cages were unfolded, the soldiers used connecting pins to connect multiple mesh cages together. Once the connection was completed, sand and gravel could be poured into the mesh cages.

This riot wall is composed of a series of metal mesh cages and durable synthetic fiber linings, forming individual units. These units can be quickly deployed and filled with sand, gravel or other filling materials to form a solid protective wall. Due to its modular design and lightweight materials, it can be quickly deployed by a small number of people in a short period of time, and can be combined into different shapes and sizes as needed to adapt to various terrain and environmental requirements. Once filled, this modular riot wall can provide extremely high protection against explosions, bullets and other physical impacts.

While everyone was "building high walls" at the station, the company commander Jamal had already walked towards the United Nations Office in Sierra Leone not far away. After visiting the office, he would walk a few more steps to visit President Kabbah, who "does not issue orders outside Freetown". He visited these two employers at the same time. One was to discuss the specific security work to come, and the other was to ask where he could rent excavators and bulldozers. After all, using manual labor to dig soil and fill the explosion-proof wall was too inefficient.

"Mr. Jamal, welcome to the United Nations Office in Sierra Leone. I am Johnson, responsible for coordinating the affairs of this mission."

“Thank you for your hospitality, Mr. Johnson. We have arrived in Freetown and look forward to working with the United Nations.”

If it weren't for the world map and the United Nations logo hanging on the wall, Jamal would probably have taken this place as an ordinary government office, and would not have mistaken the haggard old man in front of him as the head of the United Nations office in Sierra Leone.

"The head of the office in the photo doesn't look that old..."

After a brief greeting, Johnson led Jamal into a meeting room. The window of the meeting room faced the streets of Freetown. The sun shone through the curtains onto the table, adding a little warmth to the room, but only a little. Anyway, the sun could not dispel the haggardness and wrinkles on Johnson's face.

Johnson opened a folder and began to detail the next mission arrangements:

"At present, our main goal is to ensure the safe delivery of humanitarian assistance, while assisting Sierra Leone in completing DDR (disarmament, demobilization and reintegration) work, collecting, recording, controlling and disposing of small arms, ammunition, explosives and light and heavy weapons from combatants and civilians; allowing combatants to formally and controlledly separate from armed forces and gangs; and allowing former combatants to obtain civilian status and obtain sustainable employment and income... We thought we would have a headache when we moved on to the most difficult part of the follow-up work, that is, creating employment opportunities to completely insulate them from the fighting, but we didn't expect that we couldn't push the first step forward..."

"Well, I guess Sankoh didn't want his troops to surrender their weapons... He probably didn't expect the United Nations to be serious this time..."

“Absolutely!”

Since there were more eye-catching international events than what happened in West Africa almost every year in the 90s, the external attention and intervention on West African countries were limited. The UN peacekeeping operations were still mainly traditional and not significant. The failure of the peacekeeping operation in Somalia and the inaction during the Rwandan genocide further exacerbated the crisis of peacekeeping operations and caused peacekeeping operations to fall into a low ebb. During this low period, the so-called UN peacekeepers were very "grassroots teams" and the effect was also very poor. They simply called for a ceasefire and monitored elections, and would withdraw before the situation stabilized.

But this time, in Sierra Leone, the United Nations—unusually serious—had taken the United Nations seriously. If it had followed the United Nations’ past style, it would have basically started to prepare for withdrawal the moment the Lomé Peace Agreement was signed. Sierra Leone’s warlord Foday Sankoh also thought so. By signing a peace agreement, he could not only become vice president, but also get the meddling United Nations to get out of the way. However, this time, the United Nations took it seriously. Not only did it not leave, it also said that it would gradually disarm Foday Sankoh’s troops according to the agreement.

The "knife" of the United Nations really hit Foday Sankoh's "vital roots". Disarming a warlord means taking lives, doesn't it? Does Foday Sankoh, without his troops, really dare to be the vice president? Isn't he afraid that the Kabbah government, which has accumulated deep resentment, will kill him? For the people of Sierra Leone, killing Foday Sankoh, this anti-human humanoid animal, will only lead to applause.

Seeing that the United Nations was ready to disarm itself according to the agreement, Foday Sankoh had already regretted signing the agreement. Not only did he not refuse to disarm, he also sent his subordinates to obstruct the United Nations' actions and warned the United Nations not to meddle in other people's affairs. But it was obvious that the United Nations did not buy it. It was fine for the five permanent members to threaten me, but how could a warlord from a small African country threaten me?

The United Nations adopted a tougher attitude and insisted that Foday Sankoh's troops disarm. The situation in Sierra Leone became tense. The United Nations urgently mobilized peacekeeping troops from all over the country to go to Sierra Leone. Before the main force of the peacekeeping force arrived, the United Nations and the Kabbah government hit it off and chose to hire Giant Security, which had taken strong actions in Indonesia (which was also another form of "peacekeeping" action), to supplement the security forces of the government and the United Nations advance team.

Johnson was quite satisfied with Jamal and this elite Giant God security team. The only thing he was dissatisfied with was, "I remember that the contract signed between the United Nations and you is a battalion-level rapid response unit, with a combat force of no less than 400 people. Your team, no matter how you put it together, will not exceed people.

Chapter 199: Would this be a bit too stimulating for Sanko?

After visiting the head of the United Nations office in Sierra Leone, Jamal went to the office of Sierra Leone President Kabbah to meet with the president who can only control the capital.

Although the Lomé Peace Agreement has been signed, the situation is still fragile and there is still room for the Giant God Security to be useful. After a brief greeting, President Kabbah and Jamal immediately began to discuss work matters, hoping that the Giant God Security can cooperate with the government's peace efforts. As for how to cooperate with the government to achieve peace, the first step is to ask the Giant God Security to help the government army maintain the security of key areas in the capital.

"Foday Sankoh will never surrender his arms and become a vice president easily. The United Nations is seriously urging Sankoh's troops to disband, but I doubt that Sankoh will not do anything desperate without the United Nations sending heavy troops to Sierra Leone..."

Kabbah was quite familiar with the style of this old rival, so he made a request to Jamal, which was to help the government army defend the capital Freetown. However, when he learned that Jamal's vanguard had only one company, the disappointed President Kabbah immediately made a second request, that is, if he could not help the government army defend Freetown, then Giant God Security would protect himself and the government team to go into exile abroad...

Jamal knew that his boasting that "even if there is only one company, it may be possible to defeat Foday Sankoh" would not work. After all, the matching mechanism in the African region is often based on the comparison of the number of people on both sides. The government army has less than 3,000 people because it cannot afford to support more soldiers.

Foday Sankoh, on the other hand, because he occupied a large number of mining areas, was able to obtain a large amount of funds by selling diamonds and other minerals to Charles Taylor, another anti-human guy in Liberia. With money, he could buy weapons and equipment, and with weapons and equipment, he could recruit people. Therefore, Sankoh's military force could expand to 20,000. Although most of them were a motley crowd, after taking drugs, they could become a bloodthirsty team that was not afraid of death. This was already very strong in the African region.

Therefore, President Kabbah did not expect that these hundred or so people could overthrow Foday Sankoh.

Finally, Jamal asked Kaba for some support such as excavators and bulldozers to improve the efficiency of earthmoving and strengthen the defense of the base. Apart from that, he had no other requests for the time being. This time, it was Kaba's turn to be a little surprised.

"Are you sure you have no other requests?"

"There are no requirements for now. We have our own medicines, and as for food, we have paid for meals at the United Nations Office and will eat there for free..."

President Kabbah nodded and said, "Before you, whether it was the troops of the West African Community or other mercenary companies, the first thing they asked of me when they came here was diamonds and prostitutes..."

In Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, where a large number of refugees gather, it is inevitable that a large number of slums built with iron sheets, wooden boards and other materials have emerged. The houses here are densely packed and narrow alleys crisscross. The weather in Freetown is not friendly to these refugees whose lives are in a state of collapse.

The wind gradually grew louder, and a gust of wind mixed with sand and dust came howling, sweeping up the garbage and plastic bags on the ground and making them fly in the air. The residents of the slum began to feel uneasy. In the blink of an eye, heavy rain poured down, and the big raindrops hit the iron roofs, making a deafening sound. The rain flowed down the eaves, forming a stream and rushing on the streets. The strong wind mixed with rain hit the houses violently, and many iron roofs trembled in the wind, making a sound like mourning.

The wind outside the house was getting stronger and stronger, and the iron roofs were blown up by the wind, making a heart-pounding creaking sound. Suddenly, a strong wind swept through, completely flipping the roofs of many houses, and the iron sheets spun in the air and then fell heavily to the ground.

"So, that's why we're delaying dinner today?" Jamal asked.

Johnson replied awkwardly: "Yes, that's right. First of all, the local chef we hired was late because his tin roof was blown away by the wind; secondly, the driver responsible for delivering the ingredients was late..."

"Was the roof of his house also blown away?"

"Oh, it was someone else's roof that hit his roof."

In the first team that arrived in Sierra Leone, there were soldiers who worked as part-time drivers, soldiers who worked as part-time doctors, and soldiers who worked as part-time psychological counselors, but the only one who forgot to bring a soldier who worked as a part-time cook. Seeing the aroma of food wafting from the United Nations office next door, while the Giant God Security could only eat compressed biscuits and canned food, Jamal decided to take everyone to the United Nations to eat. It was not a free meal, as they had to pay for the food.

The United Nations did not object to this. It simply added chairs and tables, purchased more food, and hired a few more cooks. They were not worried that Giant Security would default on the food expenses. After all, part of the cost of hiring Giant Security was from the United Nations funds, so the money could be deducted directly from the funds.

When eating in the cafeteria, people sitting at the same table can't help chatting and talking nonsense. Giant God Security and the UN staff naturally chatted. The UN staff shared their exaggerated experiences in various countries; someone from Giant God Security boasted about how brave and good he was when he was covering the retreat of overseas Chinese in Indonesia. In fact, he was not sent to Indonesia to perform the mission at that time...

Then, a UN staff member said: "Wow! You are so awesome, then it will be no problem for you to protect us and go to the surrounding villages to do some investigation and visits!"

"No problem at all! Protecting you is part of our mission." Faced with a request from a UN staff member who looked pretty good, it was hard for a certain Giant God security captain to refuse. However, his eyes suddenly fell on Jamal, and the captain, who was about to pat his chest to make a promise, softened his tone and began to make amends, "Oh, well, of course, the specifics of how to do it still need to be determined by our commander and your chief officer together. If the commander agrees, then everything is easy."

"Under the current circumstances, will going to investigate these contents irritate Sankoh? I don't want to destroy the fragile peace at the moment."

Johnson put forward his own considerations. He was not unwilling to do so. For example, "providing assistance to the victims in Sierra Leone", "investigating the crimes of Sankoh and his subordinates", and "disbanding the armed forces of Sankoh's forces" all required the United Nations to conduct large-scale visits and investigations in order to obtain detailed data and cases, and to carry out work based on these data and cases. The tasks assigned to Johnson by the United Nations included the above contents, and some young people in the delegation were also very enthusiastic to carry out the above work immediately.

However, the tasks set by the top leaders of the United Nations are often not so down-to-earth. For example, if you want to conduct the above-mentioned visits and investigations, it is bound to provoke Sankoh, making him think that the United Nations is eager to deal with him, and finally he will do something desperate. Johnson's current response is to "be firm in attitude, but not too aggressive", not to provoke Sankoh too much, first give him the illusion that the United Nations is inefficient and can be delayed indefinitely, and then when the main force of the United Nations peacekeeping forces arrives, he will have the confidence to carry out large-scale visits and investigations and urge the armed forces to surrender their weapons.

Johnson didn't want the fragile peace in Sierra Leone to collapse, and he had his reasons. Sierra Leone, as well as neighboring Liberia, had been in civil war for many years. The two sides fought back and forth, tens of thousands of ordinary civilians were killed and dismembered, the economy collapsed, and half of the country's population was displaced. Moreover, it was often the case that after getting rid of a culprit, the newcomer was often also an anti-human guy, or at least a bug. In this context, not only the five permanent members of the United Nations were numb, but the people of the country were also numb. As long as peace could be achieved, it would be fine even if the culprit was not cleared of the matter.

Just like the anti-heaven slogan put forward by the Liberian warlord Taylor when he ran for president: "He killed my mother, he killed my father, but I will still vote for him." It seems that only by allowing such culprits to hold power can a corrupt country barely maintain peace.

Jamal has a different idea, or rather, the players have a different view, which is the simplest view of "good is rewarded with good, evil is punished with evil". A guy like Foday Sankoh, let him live well and let him be the vice president? That's impossible, Giant God Security must bring a wave of "heavenly justice!"

However, Sierra Leone is too big for these mere one hundred security fighters (and only some of them are players), and Giant God Security does not have detailed intelligence about Foday Sankoh's exact location.

Then stimulate him to come out...

So, Jamal fanned the flames beside Johnson, saying, "After all, this is a mission assigned to you by the United Nations. How can you execute it with such a big discount? This is not good..." Then he said, "You don't have to worry about the safety of the staff who go out to investigate and visit. Our soldiers will definitely ensure that the staff go and come back safely." Finally, he said, "Who is Foday Sankoh? Does he dare to shoot at the UN peacekeeping forces? Aren't the first batch of peacekeeping forces about to arrive? What do you have to be afraid of?"

It was mainly the last sentence that persuaded Johnson. Yes, the first batch of peacekeeping soldiers from India, Zambia and Kenya will arrive soon. Why should he be afraid?

Chapter 200: Decided to kidnap the peacekeeping force

Most of the houses in the village were built with mud and straw, and they looked dilapidated after the baptism of war. A few skinny chickens paced among the ruins, as if looking for something, and occasionally a few lonely cries were heard, forming a sharp contrast with the surrounding silence.

Escorted by a six-member team of Giant God Security, UN staff and two reporters arrived at a village not far from the capital Freetown. The car stopped at the entrance of the village, and the group got off and walked deep into the village, moving slowly along the muddy road.

The villagers seemed to be familiar with the men wearing blue helmets. Even when they saw armed men with guns behind them, they did not show excessive vigilance or resistance. After all, they were not far from the capital. Maybe some of them had done business with the UN in the city and knew that the UN would not mess around. At first, the villagers thought that the UN staff were here to distribute supplies, but when they heard that the UN staff were here to ask questions, especially those that made people recall the painful memories, everyone fell silent.

The first person to stand up was a 60-year-old woman. With the comfort of the reporter, she slowly expressed the great shame in her heart.

Because she was old and couldn't run, a group of rebels caught her in her village. When they found that the other women had run away, they raped her. She said: "I begged them not to do this, I am old, I can be their grandmother, but they didn't listen, they just laughed at me, and finally let me go because I was old and useless."

With the first leader, a young woman came and complained to the UN staff that she had just given birth to a dead baby the day before the rebels attacked her village. She was weak and lying on the bed. When they heard that the rebels were coming, other villagers fled in fear, but she was unable to move and eventually fell into the hands of five rebels. The rebels saw her lying on the bed and wanted to rape her, but she immediately begged them not to do so. However, the rebels did not listen at all and gang-raped her. The woman's husband could no longer bear it and wanted to fight to the death, but he was eventually shot dead by them because he was outnumbered.

"I thought I was dealing with people, so I said I had just given birth to a dead baby. There was blood on me," she continued, weeping, "but they were not people...

As each story was told, the Giant God security guards who were eavesdropping soon felt physically uncomfortable. Perhaps only the old soldiers who had faced the riots in Jakarta in May 1998 could listen to these stories calmly.

During the years of civil war, the rebels raped whoever they came across, then rounded up the women and took them to the rebel commanders, who then handed them over to other gangs for rape. If the rebels thought a woman was attractive or healthy enough to work, she would be taken away as a sex slave and servant.

Even now, thousands of women are being forced into 'marriage' with rebels and continue to be held as sex slaves.

In addition, the rebels also forcibly abducted civilians as slave miners, and sometimes carried out indiscriminate massacres and dismemberment, and even more cruelly, literally "ripped out the heart and lungs". Or they used machetes and other tools to cut off the hands, arms or legs of the victims. In some cases, they only gave the victims two choices, "long sleeves" or "short sleeves", that is, cutting off the hands or the entire arm.

"Now that we are here, none of this will happen again!"

The person who said this was not Giant God Security, but a man with a thick Indian accent. At this moment, his team was sitting in trucks and armored personnel carriers, and the convoy was driving on a bumpy dirt road. The convoy composed of Indian peacekeeping troops was moving slowly, and several trucks and armored personnel carriers were bumping on the bumpy road.

It is hard for ordinary people to imagine how the Indian army could become the main force of this peacekeeping operation, but the reality is that Sierra Leone is a Commonwealth country, and the main force of peacekeeping operations here is also Commonwealth countries, which is completely understandable. And among the Commonwealth countries, who has more troops than India?

At the request of the United Nations, this Indian peacekeeping force will be deployed to sensitive areas of Sierra Leone to carry out peacekeeping missions.

How sensitive is this area? It is located in Kailahun, eastern Sierra Leone, bordering Liberia. There are not only a large number of diamond mining areas (one of the money bags of Sierra Leone rebels), but also an important channel for Sankoh and Taylor in Liberia to conduct smuggling trade (Sierra Leone produces diamonds, but the export volume of diamonds is almost zero, while Liberia, which does not produce diamonds, has billions of dollars in exports every year). In addition, the mission of the Indian peacekeeping force is also very sensitive, which is to seize the weapons of the local Sierra Leone rebels.

"Damn, this road is terrible," the commander of the Indian infantry battalion cursed, "It's worse than the country road near my hometown."

"Welcome to Africa, sir. This is the way the roads are. You have to get used to it.

"We have been walking for almost two hours, why haven't we reached our destination yet?" "According to the map, we should arrive in an hour, but judging by the road conditions, it may take longer."

On both sides of the road are dense tropical rainforests, tall trees block out the sun, and sunlight can only be seen sporadically through the gaps between the leaves. Occasionally, a few monkeys can be seen jumping between the branches, making sharp calls.

All these scenes made the commander feel that this place was not much different from his hometown. Then, he began to imagine what happened in his hometown, which he heard from his fellow villagers in the police force. In India, the Maoist armed forces active in the forests have become more and more rampant. They thought they could only operate in rural areas and inaccessible places, but now they dare to run to the highway to ambush the convoy of the Indian police force, as if they were about to connect multiple rebellious areas and create a "red corridor" in India............

"Why did I think of this? Oh, I must have thought too much. These African warlords should not be as rampant as the Maoist armed forces..."

During the boring journey, the soldiers in the convoy were chatting casually.

"Hey man, do you think this mission is going to be dangerous?" asked a young soldier.

Sitting opposite the young man was an experienced veteran. He shook his head and said, "Don't think too much, kid. We are here to maintain peace, not to fight. As long as we follow the rules, there shouldn't be any big problems."

At this moment, there was a commotion at the rear of the convoy. The soldier leaned out to take a look and found that the truck had broken down.

"Damn it, there's a problem again. We shouldn't use unreliable domestic gadgets... Forget it, everyone, get out of the car and wait for it to be repaired before getting back on the road."

"What's going on?" The commander of the team also came over and asked.

"We're having some trouble with the engine, sir," a mechanic replied. "We're working on it. We should have it fixed shortly."

"Hurry up, it's getting dark, I don't want to spend the night in this damn place!"

However, they did not know that in the jungle not far away, a group of fully armed rebels were quietly approaching them. Half of these rebels were child soldiers, holding assault rifles and RPGs in their hands, with eyes full of hatred for these "foreign exploiters" and a frenzy of wanting to fight. Behind these teams, there were many modified pickup trucks (for example, equipped with 12.7mm or 14.5mm caliber heavy machine guns, automatic grenade launchers, and 20mm or larger caliber small artillery).

Even in the matching mechanism of the African region, the commander of this rebel army knew that it was too easy to deal with this "long snake formation" that did not even do the most basic reconnaissance. If Sankoh had not asked everyone to try not to kill people, this Indian peacekeeping force would have been littered with corpses at this moment... Well, because Sankoh said that his purpose was not to kill people, but to kidnap the UN peacekeeping force and engage in "hostage diplomacy."

Chapter 201 Hostage Diplomacy

In Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, Johnson slowly collected a lot of data and cases. These were summarized by UN staff who visited one village after another. The situation is indeed not optimistic. The situation in Sierra Leone has not improved because of peace, but has continued to deteriorate. This also proves that the conclusion reached by the United Nations is correct. If the United Nations does not have a permanent presence here until Sierra Leone is completely on the path to becoming a normal country, it will inevitably repeat the mistakes of withdrawing peacekeeping forces from Somalia in 1993 and withdrawing peacekeeping forces during the Rwanda genocide.

"If that happens, Sankoh's army will make a comeback, the people of Sierra Leone will once again live in dire straits, and the blood of many UN staff will have been shed in vain..."

Fortunately, the situation at the United Nations is improving, and Johnson has learned two pieces of good news. First, the rapid reaction battalion promised by Giant God Security has set off and will arrive in Sierra Leone today or tomorrow, but the composition of the troops has changed a little, and it may be necessary to arrange a few more Ukrainian translators, but the Russian translators prepared in the early stage can also be used, so they are not wasted; second, there is good news from the United Nations peacekeeping force. Just yesterday, the first batch of peacekeeping soldiers from India, Zambia and Kenya entered Sierra Leone.

Now, Johnson has the confidence to carry out a larger-scale disarmament operation against Sankoh's armed forces. Only by completely disarming Sankoh can the United Nations provide subsequent food, medical and educational support (if not disarmed, these things are equivalent to feeding meat buns to dogs), and help with some infrastructure reconstruction, social service restoration and economic development projects to help Sierra Leone become a normal country again.

Johnson, who was eager to try, felt a surge of enthusiasm in his heart, as if the dark clouds in the sky were dispelled by the sun. He was about to share the good news with Jamala, the company commander of the Giant God Security, when he went to the cafeteria for dinner. Then, he received a piece of news that made his heart fall from a height of ten thousand meters to a bottomless abyss:

"What? The peacekeeping force we sent to disarm the rebels was disarmed by the rebels?"

Just yesterday, an Indian infantry battalion entered the Kailahun area in armored vehicles and trucks, and was suddenly attacked by the rebels' superior forces and fell into a heavy encirclement of the rebels. The enemy was numerous and we were few, and the other side had a large number of individual anti-tank weapons. The Indian infantry battalion completely lost the initiative, and any resistance could bring disaster.

At this time, the commander of the Indian peacekeeping force wanted to contact the main UN force in the rear, but what was discouraging was that the rebels had already attacked the communication relay station while the Indian infantry battalion was still on the way, causing the Indian force to lose contact with the rear (the strange thing is that the Indian peacekeeping force never discovered this, or even if they did, they didn't take it seriously).

The commander of the Indian peacekeeping force found that this was a battle that could not be won. All the peacekeeping troops were disarmed, some were stripped of their clothes, armored personnel carriers and trucks were confiscated, and hundreds of peacekeepers were taken hostage. So far, the peacekeeping force composed of Indian soldiers had just arrived in Sierra Leone for only two days before it was "annihilated." The Indian side claimed that this was the price that the Indian peacekeeping force paid for the "freedom of our brothers and sisters" in Sierra Leone.

Of course, the Indian peacekeeping force was not the only one targeted. After the rebels disarmed the Indian armored personnel carriers, they used them to raid the camp of the Kenyan peacekeeping force. Some Kenyan soldiers who were caught off guard tried to resist, but they were suppressed by the rebels' stronger firepower. Many were killed and many were injured. Since the Kenyan peacekeeping soldiers only had light weapons, they had to surrender their weapons to avoid a massacre when faced with the rebels who were numerous and had armored units.

After doing all of the above, the rebels issued a statement to defend their actions and express their position: accusing the UN mission and the Sierra Leone government of failing to fulfill certain provisions of the peace agreement, especially in terms of power sharing and political integration. They claimed that the kidnapping was a response to these unfulfilled promises. They expressed their willingness to return to the negotiating table, but stressed the need to review the peace agreement to ensure that their interests are fully protected.