Posted on 02/01/2025 1:53:50 AM PST by RandFan
It has been a humiliating week for nearly 300 Romanian mercenaries recruited to fight on the side of the army in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Their surrender following a rebel assault on the eastern city of Goma has also shattered the dreams of those who signed up for the job to earn big money.
The BBC has seen contracts that show that these hired soldiers were being paid around $5,000 (£4,000) a month, while regular military recruits get around $100, or sometimes go unpaid.
The Romanians were contracted to help the army fight the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, who say they are fighting to protect the rights of DR Congo's minority ethnic Tutsis.
When the offensive on Goma started on Sunday night, the Romanians were forced to take refuge at a UN peacekeeping base.
"The M23 rebels were supported by troops and state-of-the-art military equipment from Rwanda and managed to reach our positions around the city of Goma," Constantin Timofti, described as a co-ordinator for the group, told Romanian TVR channel on Monday.
"The national army gave up fighting and we were forced to withdraw."
Romania's foreign ministry spokesman Andrei Țărnea told the BBC that "complex" negotiations followed, which saw the M23 hand over the Romanian fighters - whom he described as private employees of the DR Congo government on an army training mission - to Rwanda.
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Don’t those Congo folks know it’s Black history month?
The mercenaries are SUPER-LUCKY if they get out of Congo alive at this point.
“In fact, Asociatia RALF may also work across Africa - its contract stipulated that it had various “operational locations”, including “Burkina Faso, DR Congo, Ivory Coast, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Gambia and Guinea”
Not a good record...most (maybe all) of the above countries have now liberated themselves from their Globalist masters. It started with Niger, but keeps spreading. If DR Congo falls, no more Teslas (sorry TG).
Sub-Saharan Africa hiring Europeans as military labor?
Color me skeptical, though someone surely hired them.
White mercenaries aren’t what they used to be in Africa, it used to be that a small number of them were significant.
...state-of-the-art military equipment from Rwanda...
From Rwanda?
They fared better when the Africans used spears.
They faired better when they were tougher men and better led, the communists, dictators and socialists were not using spears.
I thought this thread was about me.
-Doctor Congo
The Romanian war record makes the French look like Master Warriors.
Whoever runs the uranium mine(s)
A movie about a man who loved to kill communists and rescued thousands of whites, he even handed defeats to Che Guevara.
You can bet they could never make that movie today.
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