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The Fiji Times » Fiji soldiers abducted by guerillas

Unaisi Ratubalavu Then Commander of the Fiji Military Forces, Colonel Ian Thorpe. Picture: FILE In 1979, 28 Fiji soldiers serving with the United Nations peacekeeping force in Southern Lebanon were abducted by Palestinian forces there. Luckily, they were released unharmed. This ordeal was published in detail in The Fiji Times on Wednesday, July 4, 1979, and was adapted from a story in the Australian Associated Press. The event was later confirmed at a news conference by then Commander of the Fiji Military Forces, Colonel Ian Thorpe. He said soldiers from B Company were overwhelmed by about 40 armed men of the extreme left-wing branch of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP).

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