There is a BIG disconnect between of what MONUC needs to do and what they are doing. Congo does not have an effective armed force to fight against rebels or police force to the people. Everyone wants MONUC to protect the Congolese civilians.
We want a heavily armed police force. Serve and Protect! They need to patrol the villages, investigate crimes against the civilians, AND then hunt down the guilty parties.
UN peacekeepers failing to protect Congolese civilians
United Nations peacekeepers are failing to protect civilians from Ugandan rebels in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where over 900 people have been butchered since Christmas, humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Wednesday.
The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) embarked on its murderous spree following a combined attack by Ugandan, Congolese and southern Sudanese forces.
'Little thought was given to protecting civilians when planning these attacks,' Hakim Chkam, MSF's Field Coordinator in the Haut-Uele province, told journalists in Nairobi. 'All the governments involved and the UN must act now to protect civilians.
'Given its mandate to protect civilians, MONUC (the French acronym for the UN peacekeeping mission) has a particular role to play,' he added.
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