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| Rebels in DR Congo Say U.N. Peace Brigade Move is 'War' | |
| 2013-04-02 | |
| [An Nahar] Rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo or Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... hit out Monday at a move by the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... to deploy a peacekeeping brigade to the country's restive east, saying it was instead choosing to "make war". "This is the war option that the United Nations is exercising," said the political leader and front man of the M23 rebel movement, Bertrand Bisimwa.
On Thursday, the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved the creation of a brigade of more than 2,500 troops to curb violent unrest in the resource-rich eastern provinces of North and South Kivu. The resolution's mandate to conduct "targeted offensive operations" has never been given to a peacekeeping mission before, diplomats said. The force is to put an end to unrest in the region, which has been gripped by conflict between gangs for more than two decades. A statement from Kinshasha in response to M23's comments Monday said the rebels should quit, as they "go from one failure to the next". "Now it's more failure, tomorrow it will be bullets from the brigade. There is still time for our M23 brothers to disband," government front man Lambert Mende told a presser. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Yes, thank you for being one of the rough men who allow us to sleep safe at night, Bill. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-04-02 19:53 |
| #4 Bia dankie vir jy service in the struggle against communism Bill. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-04-02 17:18 |
| #3 I spent some bad ugly days and nights in Angola doing things no one will admit occurred and I can tell you The Congo made Angola look like a Sunday School...if you can believe it Leopoldville was somewhere down the sewer from Mogadishu and somewhat parallel to Dar es Salaam. In other words, absolutely the worst place on earth, the Mexican Narcoterrorists can't dream up some of the gore and violence that occurred on a day to day basis. I was there six months and my bright red hair turned white... |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-04-02 17:13 |
| #2 Behold the new |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-04-02 10:11 |
| #1 Naw, the UN would send in the Volgans. As for the Congo, a perfect indictment of all of that peace and love, anticolonial silliness from the 60's. We turned those countries loose on their own and they had no clue how to self govern. I bet if you talked to some of the old timers, they would tell you how much better and more peaceful it was under Belgian control. Yep, I do fault the Belgians for not preparing the Congo for self government but given the fact the locals have not learned the lessons of the past (possibly because they blame, take your pick, Belgian, the CIA, the EU, the US, or Lithuania for their troubles) they bear the responsibility for their current state which is failed, anarchy and a complete waste of territory and resources. Most of Africa is a wreck and getting worse. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-04-02 09:44 |