Posted on 07/26/2022 11:40:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin
At least five people have been killed and fifty others wounded on the second day of anti-United Nations protests in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo city of Goma, according to the government.
A Reuters reporter at the scene said UN peacekeepers fired tear gas and live bullets at a largely peaceful crowd on Tuesday, killing two and wounding at least two others. Army and police officers deployed to the scene did not open fire. A soldier and a policeman in a bulletproof vest were also hit by bullets, he added.
An AFP journalist also reported seeing a UN soldier shoot a protester dead.
Demonstrations against the perceived ineffectiveness of the UN peacekeeping operation MONUSCO against armed groups in the country, erupted on Monday.
Hundreds of people blocked roads and chanted anti-UN slogans on Monday before breaking into the headquarters of the UN peacekeeping mission in Goma, an important commercial hub of North Kivu province.
The protest comes after the president of the DRC Senate, Modeste Bahati, told supporters in Goma on July 15 that MONUSCO should “pack its bags”.
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
MONUSCO has been in the DRC since 1999.
Sign me up!
And THAT, Joe, is why you will never crush the 2nd amendment in America.
anti-United Nations protests
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Sign me up!
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Not so fast.
That’s why they got killed. There’s no such thing as “mostly peaceful” when you oppose the UN. They’re not going to treat you like a useful democrat lacky anarchist.
Every time I see DR Congo in a title out of the corner of my eye I think they are talking about me, LOL.
The locals want the UN gone so they can get on with the business of hacking each other to death with machetes.
The area around Lake Kivu is very densely populated and at the Malthusian limit.
UN peacekeeper fired bullets and tear gas....... Who fired? Oh PEACEkeepers from the u.n. I see.
It’s The UN PIECEkeepers.
Exactly...Right where I was going with a post....
I’m hoping when night falls the movie Zulu plays out!
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Blue helmet targets will stained red if they ever try to control the rural areas of this country.
NYC would welcome them.
Zulu Dawn.
With the UN as the redcoats.
:-)
UN blue helmets. Raping the children the locals won’t rape. What’s not to love about the UN.
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