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We were making a TV documentary, they turned up (we were there first) and didn't like being filmed. We were split up into groups of locals and foreigners (I was put into the wrong group) except for the one American in our team who was almost immediately released (he couldn't actually go anywhere - we were in the middle of the desert and he couldn't drive).
We were told later, and I'm not sure if it's true or not, that this was a standard practice. The peacekeepers were supposed to attend any disturbances in or around the towns and villages but these often involved guns so they would find themselves 'unavoidably detained' en route so they would turn up late for the gun fight. It does sound unlikely to me.
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