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DRC, UN Using
Missiles &
400 Rounds
Killed
Civilian Then
“Found” Gun
By Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 7 --
Even as the
UN's envoy to
the Democratic
Republic of
the Congo
Martin Kobler
was assuring
Inner City
Press of
improvements
in security
while
declining to
comment on his
leaked memo to
UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous that
Inner City
Press
published this
week, Ladsous'
Department was
covering up a
civilian
killing in the
DRC.
Sources tell
Inner City
Press of a
DPKO meeting
concerning an
excessive use
of force by
the UN Mission
in the DRC
(MONUSCO),
through its
Force
Intervention
Brigade, using
76 rockets or
missiles and
up to 400
rounds of
ammunition
near Pinga in
Eastern Congo,
ostensibly
against the
Mai Mai Cheka
group.
But at least
one civilians
was killed.
There was no
impartial
investigation,
the sources
say. Rather,
Ladsous' DPKO
went in
itself, and
conveniently
“discovered” a
gun near the
killed
civilians,
much
like
some police
departments
“drop a piece”
after a
questionable
shooting.
Inner City
Press is
informed, by
different
sources, that
this has been
discussed
among senior
officials in
Ladsous' DPKO,
at the DPKO /
DFS Directors'
meeting on the
morning of
October 7.
So why wasn't
this said at
the Security
Council and
stakeout where
Kobler bragged
to Inner City
Press about
the “zero
tolerance”
policy (while
Ladsous
has, on
camera, linked
rape to
“R&R”)?
What is the
mechanism to
disclose the
killing of
civilians
under Ladsous'
DPKO? We'll
have more on
this - and on
Ladsous
including one
of his
meetings
during UN
General
Assembly
debate week.
Ladsous'
spokespeople,
far from
answering
questions, go
so far as to
direct UNTV
boom
microphone
operators to
avoid Inner
City Press,
even preventing
the Press from
asking any
questions to
Mali's Foreign
Minister
Abdulaye Diop
last week.
We'll have
more on all
this.
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