Dedicated to protection

By Xu Wei For China Daily | China Daily | Updated: 2019-03-08 08:58
Share
Share - WeChat
Li Kun (left), a member of the Chinese peacekeeping police force, talks with local children in South Sudan in September. CHINA DAILY

"A lot of the male residents in the camps are former militia members who were defeated and scattered around the country during the years of civil war," Huang said.

"Frequently, we have found machetes, AK-47 rifles and other illegal items during search raids."

The Chinese peacekeeping police in South Sudan are all individual police officers, known as IPOs, who do not carry weapons. Their safety is ensured by members of a formed police unit, or FPU.

Luo Zhiyong, the Chinese police contingent commander, said there are seven civilian protection sites set up by the UN in five states of South Sudan.

Smaller sites have several thousand people, while big ones may have more than 100,000 internally displaced people.

Luo works at the FPU office and is in charge of coordination and cooperation between the formed police unit and the individual police officers.

It is the second time that Luo, 43, has taken part in a peacekeeping task abroad. He was deployed to the UN peacekeeping mission in East Timor from 2001 to 2002.

"The security situation at the sites is highly unpredictable, because people with different backgrounds live there, including many former soldiers disguised as civilians," Luo said. "Therefore, the crime rate is very high at the sites."

|<< Previous 1 2 3 4 Next   >>|
Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US