DR Congo - human rights - UN
No prospect of EU Congo mission for now
Wednesday 03 December 2008
Belgium says no European country is willing to lead a peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite calls for the EU to provide a rapid reaction force to help overstretched peacekeepers there.
Special Report Conflict in North KivuWednesday 03 December 2008
AFP - Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht Tuesday ruled out for now a European mission to the conflict-torn Democratic Republic of Congo saying no country was prepared to take charge of it.
"My feeling is that it is not possible to raise a European operation for the moment," he said after talks with some EU counterparts in Brussels.
"The chance we get a European mission in Congo is limited, to put it mildly. No country is ready to take the lead."
France, which currently holds the EU's rotating presidency, had on Monday called for "urgent" European talks on such a mission.
On Sunday, De Gucht said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon favoured sending an interim European force to the DR Congo while awaiting peacekeeping reinforcements for the country's east, where recent clashes have displaced some 250,000.
The UN Security Council has approved an additional 3,000 peacekeepers for the Congo mission, but the deployment "is going to take some time," Karel De Gucht told Belgium's VRT television.
France and former colonial ruler Belgium last month proposed sending troops to the Congo's eastern Nord-Kivu province to support the UN deployment, already the biggest United Nations peacekeeping mission in the world with 17,000 troops.
But other European states, including Germany, are against military input, preferring to pursue humanitarian options and political mediation.
International calls have mounted for Europe to send an "interim" security force to eastern DR Congo as thousands more fled fighting between rebels and government or Kinshasa-supporting forces at the weekend.
Since fighting resumed in August, rebels led by ex-general Laurent Nkunda have pushed back government troops in Nord-Kivu, also clashing with pro-government Mai-Mai militia and Hutu rebels from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda.
UN peacekeepers have struggled to bring calm to the region.
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09/12/2008 09:42:21 Alert a moderator
supporting peace process
By kamasa - A
I also surpport peace negotiations like Germany than resorting to militaly means. Kabila and Nkunda should come to around table face to face and negotiate peace for the seck of Congolese lives. otherwise you will not be helped much than saving the lives of innocent civilians.
05/12/2008 13:10:16 Alert a moderator
A STANLEY......MANCHESTER.
By DAOUDA - UK
stanley,if you're an english man ,it would be very funny.
you can not teach us how to live with foreigners,in CONGO we have a large number of foreigners, now they are congolais in enterly,they behaving in good manner and in prospect in the country they living in.
Why always they( tutsis) looking for troubles,we as congolese we sufferd a lot in the past look 5millions poeple lost it doens't mean anything to you, actually we don't need anymore suffering.we're looking forwards to buit our country ,now look what that NKUNDABATWERE brought in congo. CHAOS.
LOST 5MILLIONS PEOPLE ALREADY HOW MANY PLEOPLE DO YOU WANT US TO LOOSE?
Nobody rejecting them they have to acts as congoleses not as RWANDISHs.
SOME TIMES I TRY TO BRING MYSELF TO UNDRESTAND WHAT ARE YOU WANT EXACTLY TO SAY,BUT DID UNDERSTAND JUST A LITTLE.
YOU CAN NOT TEACH US CONGO HISTORY,OR HOW MANY BORDERS WE HAVE GOT,OR OURS TRIBES AND SO ON.
05/12/2008 06:29:00 Alert a moderator
congo is big enough for every "congolese"
By stanley - manchester u.k
CONGO is so big the size of east europe,nd if i m right he has got 33 ethnics or more who knows RIGHT! but just no ROOM for the TUTSIS...now how UNFAIR is that?? all your eyes are focused on eastern congo saying all kind of none sense(OUR CONGO,OUR CONGO) africa is for all africans,before the white COLONISE envaded your continent they use to be no BORDERS we made the BORDERS so those that you are calling tutsis REBELES have been living there for ages generations after another, this part where NKUNDA is fighting is full of montains and all that its the best place for any FARMER to look after his COWS ND IF you do your HOME WORK well, you will find out that these pepeol have been FARMERS for centuries thats why they are even good fighters because is not easy to run after a cow day nd night in the rain or in the dead sun of africa( i have been there my self in 1981 to see the gorillas in the viruga park the place is just green motains is like if you are still in rwanda some where in a place called GISHWATI) these pepeol have had enough been pushed arround they are just like the jews..so get a life pepeol congo is big enough for every CONGOLESE CITIZEN so don t judge pepeol from their faces or how tall they are...nd stop focusing on the east when u still have all this UGE PLACE witch is still unexplored(2nd BIGEST JUNGLE),that is PURE IGNONRANCE why don t you focuse on down LUBUMBASHI with border with ZAMBIE...do "you" know how many diamonds are passing there every day??? YOU NEED TO FOCUSE MORE ON ZAMBIE AND ANGOLA nd these pepeol are RELATED TO KABILA JUNIOR thats where you are loosing toooooo much diamonds nd all the good stuff; with KIVU its only COLTAN not the good stuff(DIAMOND) as we call it here in the west SO all i can say to you,is that should start learning how to like each other,because these guys are not going any where any time soon...they are home just like every congolese down there...so be blessed nd wish you well to all of you.
04/12/2008 22:27:03 Alert a moderator
Injustice
By Anonyme -
You are not the only who the comment has been removed. Even mine was also removed. That is why I stopped putting my comment. They hate the truth, just like you said.They think that Africans are stupid.
04/12/2008 02:01:38 Alert a moderator
The truth hates
By Robert kishona - usa
You never liked the truth, it hates that is why you removed my comment, someday all africans will find out and realize how there are been treated
04/12/2008 01:42:23 Alert a moderator
Someone has to pay
By Kishona ,Robert - usa
I will very soon sue the united nations for discriminating african nations members of the un. I don't understand why the so call peace keepers withdrew from rwanda in 1994 while innocent women and children tutsi were being killed, they let innocent hutu refugees starve to death and brought back per force in rwanda which is against the geneva convention, and than send 17.000 armed journalists in congo who are watching 5 millions women and children being killed and do nothing but spend millions of donors dollars than shout on tv that they are helping africa!!! if i can be a leader in africa the west will just hate and and give sanctions like in zimbabwe for telling them that they are a curse of africa. I don't understand why these statues african leaders can't stand up like Mugabe so that Africa could lead itself like our ancestors did. i wish these europeans got lost in the sea while coming to africa
03/12/2008 16:27:26 Alert a moderator
To All France haters of Africa
By Vieux Bouks - Congo/Kinshasa
Kagame is refraining from publishing 33 french responsible of the genocide of Tutsi.
French people are mocking African In their news, demonstrating the animality of people committing mutual genocides, fighting continuously thought French people are responsible of those acts in Rwanda and in Congo. France has been paying regular salaries that are at least 20 times better than that of each of Congolese soldier to Hutu FDLR fighters with the money the EU is justifying as a support to Congolese army reforms. That money is actually serving to prepare a genocide-revenge against Kagame and Tutsi to be launched from the Congo territory. This justifies support to J.Kabila another ally france has won by imposing him in the name of the EU as the democratically elected president, which in fact was a fraud overtly cautioned by France on-behalf the EU.
France haters of Africa should leave Africa alone. You used to hate South-Asians, Arabs and now Congolese. We know that France is an insider-betrayer within the NATO, the BIRD, the IMF and within the UN. That betrayal will not remain continuously unpunished. Be assured...
02/12/2008 22:11:56 Alert a moderator
We love our Congo
By God Bless Congo - DR Congo / Kinshasa
There is no way to stop what is in the heart of Congolese people, we want to free our lovely country and no one can stop us.
Even if Western people took the fact of soldiers child as an argument, OUR Congo will be free. The love of it is above vengeance and sorrow, we are a peaceful people.
02/12/2008 15:47:10 Alert a moderator
To all France haters
By Anonyme -
Your comment is silly!Whatever!Stop hating on France!I'm sure your the one hating on France but in the same time trying to find a way to go to France.If you don't like France stay in your country and leave France alone!
02/12/2008 09:26:33 Alert a moderator
What France does not tell to his ally the RDC
By vieux_bouks - Congo/Kinshasa
I read the following in the upper news:
"France's Human Rights Minister Rama Yada called during a visit to Congo Sunday for international action to counter what she called "catastrophic" conditions facing the refugee population.
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What France is omitting intentionly to tell to his ally the president of Congo, is to stop recruiting and arming child-soldiers. It is a fact that France and its ally, president J.Kabila, does not benefit the support of government troops of Congo. Congolese troops are aware that money poured into the army accounts for its reorganisation are rather diverted with the complicity of France to take care of Hutus fighters.
France and J.Kabila have been reduced to recruting child-soldiers, arming Mai-mai troops in order to draw international attention and stop general Nkunda advances on the battle-fields.
International observers should rather investigate about the "long-run Interest" of France in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the France's only investment is only a small hospital, if not the Hutus fighters France is cherishing for a future revenge (allies are J.Kabila,Hutus fighters backed by France and J.Kabila) which is continuously planned against president Kagame( the common enenmy for France, J.Kabila and the Hutus figthers settled in the Congo).