We was bartered for imprisoned people from the People's Army.
Part of international military observers? What sort of joke? How come a soldier with a low rank suddenly become a international military observer? There are certain qualifications needed for that job.
Do you really think that observers go alone in those areas? How about you check wikipedia (which btw seems to be like 99% of your source of knowledge and out of the blue is not trustable anymore) and find out how those international military observations take part.