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| Army Tracks Rebels after DRCongo Massacre |
| 2014-11-27 |
| [AnNahar] The Congolese army on Wednesday searched for suspected Ugandan rebels in villages in the east of 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 aka 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... , following the massacre of around 100 people last week, the U.N. said. The army followed leads from locals around Beni, near the sites of last Thursday's killings, according to the Twitter account of U.N. mission MONUSCO. Mainly Moslem Ugandan rebels have been blamed for killing more than 200 civilians in machete attacks since October in the restive North Kivu province, where Beni lies. Local officials said the army had cordoned off the area where Thursday's massacre took place, while MONUSCO forces were patrolling the region. The army locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! 34 gunnies and 10 civilians on Monday, and recovered 24 weapons, according to MONUSCO. In January, the Congolese army and MONUSCO soldiers began an offensive against Ugandan rebels from the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (ADF-NALU), the last major myrmidon group active in the region. Initially, they thought they had severely weakened them, but the rebels have bounced back since the death in August of Congolese army chief General Jean-Lucien Bahuma. A MONUSCO police patrol was ambushed near Beni last Thursday, leaving no officers injured despite a lengthy shootout. The Beni massacre came as security deteriorated across Nord Kivu. The U.N. on Wednesday deplored the death of a humanitarian worker in an ambush two days earlier in the southeast of the province. The employee was a Congolese worker from the International Rescue Committee, according to a humanitarian source. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner is currently not employed |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-11-27 14:42 |
| #2 You have to find them first. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-11-27 13:35 |
| #1 It shouldn't take more than a platoon to cleanup 200 deadites with machetes. They won't even have to reload. Maybe we can spare some guys from Ebola duty. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2014-11-27 11:25 |