U.N. Eases Rules of Engagement
From Times Wire Reports
Worried by escalating militia violence, the United Nations has granted its peacekeepers in East Timor the right to shoot at armed militiamen without warning, a U.N. official said. U.N. peacekeeper Capt. Isabelito Sanchez of the Philippine army said the world body had changed its rules of engagement in the troubled territory because of an increase in militia sightings.
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