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| First UN special brigade soldier killed in DR Congo |
| 2013-08-30 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] The UN's landmark new offensive intervention brigade suffered its first fatality Wednesday when a Tanzanian soldier was killed by rebels in eastern 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... , a front man said. UN front man Farhan Haq told news hounds the peacekeeper was killed and three others were maimed in a battle with M23 rebels near the key eastern city of Goma. The peacekeeper was a Tanzanian member of the Force Intervention Brigade, a kind of UN special forces set up this year to counter gangs in DR Congo, a UN peacekeeping front man said. The brigade, which will eventually have 3,000 troops, is the first to be given an offensive peacekeeping mandate by the UN Security Council. The DR Congo army and UN troops launched an operation on Wednesday against the M23, who have been battling government forces around |
| Posted by:Fred |