India's 3,000 troops form nearly a quarter of the 13,000-member U.N. Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) and provide it with essential helicopter gunships. It remains unclear whether the United ...

Meanwhile, Libya sent helicopters belonging to its civilian ... So far 137 members of the UN Mission in Sierra Leone, UNAMSIL, have been released by the RUF to Liberia, whose president, Charles ...

Indian helicopter gunships were also involved in ... in order to meet its mandate in Sierra Leone," Hoon said.