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Thu 12 Dec 2009Violence in the Congo
THE UN Security Council faces a Srebrenica moment when it votes on December 21st to renew the mandate for MONUC, its largest global peacekeeping mission, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The morally compromised UN has 18,606 soldiers and civilian police in DRC charged with keeping the peace, protecting civilians and assisting Congolese and Rwandan troops in a bloody operation, Kimia II, against Hutu rebels of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), many associated with genocide in Rwanda.
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