At least 15 killed as anti-UN protests spread in eastern DR Congo

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At least 15 killed as anti-UN protests spread in eastern DR Congo

Postby Edge Guerrero » Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:55 pm

Three United Nations personnel and 12 protesters were killed and 50 others wounded amid escalating protests against the UN, officials say

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Soldiers from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo take position at a looted warehouse at the UN facilities in Goma

At least 15 people have been killed on the second day of anti-United Nations protests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s turbulent northeastern region, officials said.

Protests erupted on Monday as crowds took to the streets of North Kivu province’s main city Goma against the country’s UN mission – United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) – which they accuse of failing to stop armed groups’ decades-old fighting.

Demonstrations spread further north to the towns of Beni and Butembo on Tuesday.

Five people were killed in Goma and about 50 others were wounded, government spokesman Patrick Muyaya said on Tuesday.

Seven civilians were killed in Butembo, local police chief Colonel Paul Ngoma said.

One peacekeeper and two UN police officers were also killed in Butembo, the UN mission said in a statement.

The UN says that protesters have “violently snatched weapons” from the Congolese police and fired at peacekeeping forces.

Translation: 1 blue helmet and 2 UN police officer have been killed this Tuesday in Butembo (#northKivu) during an attack to the MONUSCO’s base. The assailants have violently snatched the arms to PNC [Congolese National Police] soldiers and shot at our peacekeeping forces.

“Mobs are throwing stones and petrol bombs, breaking into bases, looting and vandalising, and setting facilities on fire,” UN Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters in New York City.

He said the UN peacekeeper and UN police personnel were killed when their base in Butembo was attacked.

“The situation is very volatile and reinforcements are being mobilised,” Haq said, adding that UN forces had been told to exercise maximum restraint and only fire warning shots.

Nations. But it has regularly come under criticism in the troubled east, where many accuse it of failing to do enough to end decades-long bloodshed.

More than 120 armed groups roam the volatile region, where civilian massacres are common and conflict has displaced millions of people.

In Monday’s unrest, hundreds of people in Goma blocked roads and chanted hostile slogans before storming MONUSCO’s headquarters and a supply base there.

Protesters smashed windows and looted valuables, while helicopters airlifted UN staff from the premises and security forces fired tear gas in a bid to push them back.

Congolese security forces held back a crowd outside the facility, with some protesters carrying placards that readBye-bye, MONUSCO.”

mitted with gunshot wounds on Monday and eight more on Tuesday.

In Beni, about 350km (217 miles) to the north, soldiers deployed on the road leading to the MONUSCO base there on Tuesday, while protesters burned tyres. Shops, markets and petrol stations were closed.

In nearby Butembo, security forces dispersed protesters who had gathered in front of a MONUSCO base, witnesses said.

Ngoma, the local police chief, said some youths were “armed”.

The latest protests come after Senate President Modeste Bahati Lukwebo told supporters in Goma on July 15 that MONUSCO should “pack its bags”.

The demonstrations coincide with the resurgence of the M23 – an armed group that lay mostly dormant for years before resuming fighting last November.

The rebels have since made significant advances in eastern Congo, including capturing the North Kivu town of Bunagana on the Ugandan border.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/26/un-peacekeepers-troops-shoot-two-protesters-dead-in-goma-drc
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