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| Rebels Kill 3 Indian Soldiers in Congo |
| 2010-08-19 |
| [Dawn] Suspected rebels hacked to death three Indian UN peacekeepers in their camp in Kirumba, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the army said Wednesday. "A group of FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda) or Mai-Mai (Congolese militia) penetrated the camp at Kirumba," General Vainqueur Mayala, commander of the 8th military region of the DR Congo army, told AFP. Those are the Hutu crazies who didn't get enough of killing Tutsis in the genocide of the 90s ... "They did not use firearms, but penknives and machetes, and they killed three Indians and critically injured another three," the general added, reached by telephone from Kinshasa. The victims all served with the United Nations' Organisation for Stabilisation in Democratic Republic of Congo, abbreviated to MONUSCO. MONUSCO's spokesman Madnodje Mounoubai could not be immediately reached to confirm the attack. The mission, earlier known by its French acronym MONUC, has been present in DR Congo since late 1999 and its new mandate to consolidate peace runs until June 30 next year. Kirumba is around 140 kilometres north of Goma, capital of the volatile Nord-Kivu province. |
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