In Congo, Nepali peacekeepers have been accused of being too passive in the face of violent threats to peace. Nepali forces make up a majority of the 20,000 troops deployed there to maintain order amid civil war and militia violence. In Haiti, Nepali troops were accused of being the source of a cholera epidemic in 2010 that killed 8,000 people and sickened hundreds of thousands. Read more:Italy backs out of U.N.’s Libya mission, so Nepali troops will go insteadCholera outbreak in Haiti in 2010 tied to U.N. peacekeepers, report says The attack occurred just one month after a Nepali guard was fatally shot by an Afghan guard at a U.N. compound in Kabul, reportedly in a dispute.

Source: Washington Post June 20, 2016 16:52 UTC