Most recently Gurkhas have been taking part in operations in the Balkans, East Timor, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Since 1998, peacekeepers in Bosnia have collected some 52,000 small arms, 38,500 mines, more than 225,000 hand grenades, more than 15.5 million rounds of ammunition, 33 tonnes of explosives and more than 60,000 other military items.



