U.N. "Peacekeepers" Killed and Cannibalized (Congo)

Miami Herald ^ | 6/12/03 | SUDARSAN RAGHAVAN, Knight Ridder

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CONGO OBSERVERS SLAUGHTERED AFTER UNANSWERED PLEAS

BUNIA, Congo - For six days, two terrified United Nations military observers phoned their superiors - as many as four times a day - begging to be evacuated from their remote outpost in northeastern Congo.

They were receiving death threats, they said. They were alone and unarmed in Mongbwalu, a former gold-mining town ruled by the cannibalistic Lendu tribal militias. A U.N. helicopter from the town of Bunia could have retrieved them in 35 minutes.

But the United Nations, handcuffed by its own rules and bureaucracy, never sent a chopper. On May 18, 10 days after the two peacekeepers made their first distress call, the United Nations finally flew some armed peacekeepers to Mongbwalu.

They found the mutilated bodies of Maj. Safwat al Oran, 37, of Jordan, and Capt. Siddon Davis Banda, 29, of Malawi.

Their decomposed corpses had been tossed into a canal and covered with dirt, according to those who saw the bodies. They were shot in the eyes. Their stomachs were split open and their hearts and livers were missing. One man's brain was gone.

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Has this been widely reported? Somehow I missed it.

So this is the U.N. that we're supposed to place in charge of our national security interests. What a bunch of narcissistic morons.

[mewzilla]

More blood on the hands of the UN.

[Trueblackman]

This is the same reason why 1 million Rwandans die needlessly in 1994. The U.N. is about as welcomed as jock itch on prom night!

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You posted a very prescient comment on June 4th on another Congo thread. You said:

"Artemis? What are these peace keepers? Canibals?"

[coloradan]

One of the UN's jobs is hamanitarian, feeding people in starving nations. The UN is pleased to have reduced the famine in the Congo. (Blue hemlmets not only make good targets, but apparently good soup bowls as well.)

[coloradan]

I meant "humantarian" but come to think of it, they help the Hamas too.

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"Col. Daniel Vollot, the MONUC sector commander in Bunia, said all U.N. employees here work in dangerous, unpredictable conditions and that MONUC isn't responsible for the deaths of Banda and Oran.

"We can't feel guilty," said Vollot. "Certainly, if we had arrived two or three days before, they would be alive. It's difficult, but I don't feel guilty about that." "

How much you want to bet this a$$hole is a frog or at least a simpathetic to the frog way of life ie. roll over & die then blame someone else.

[Tijeras_Slim]

They followed UN policy.
That's the important thing.

[tbpiper]

You'll have to admit that, although dead, the observers are morally supeior to their attackers having done their duty as military observers....unarmed. They did the right thing in calling the UN equivalent of 911. It's the same moral superiority that a woman has when she is raped and murdered after depending on the police rather than Smith & Wesson.

[milan]

You know exactly why this wasn't in the forfront of the news covereage here. Liberal media can't have the American public know that this stuff is happening.

[steve8714]

So we see the difference between US forces and UN..."No man left behind" or "Here's two third world happy meals por vous"

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We can't feel guilty," said Vollot. "Certainly, if we had arrived two or three days before, they would be alive. It's difficult, but I don't feel guilty about that."

Did they take away this guys conscience when they took away his gun? My God!

[paguch]

Get the US out of the un

[steve8714]

just as important...get the UN out of the US

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How much you want to bet this a$$hole is a frog

Your right!

From a Canadian news article: "Our mission is to protect the compound and protect the airport", the sector commander, a Frenchman officer named Col. Daniel Vollot, explained wearily...

[Conspiracy Guy]

Did they taste like chicken?

[GladesGuru]

They are chicken (pun intended). Consider these hapless UN chappies as featherless bipeds - the locals did.

Anyone want to bet that the "mainstream media" don't pick up on this any more than they do the savagery that has enveloped much of South Africa after the Commie Mendelas and their ilk took over?

[RISU]

Weakness in extremis.

[yankeedame]

We can't feel guilty," said Vollot. "Certainly, if we had arrived two or three days before, they would be alive. It's difficult, but I don't feel guilty about that."

And the worst part is I'll bet he doesn't.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I figure if they tasted like chicken, they were French. If they tasted like crap, they were German. I(f they tasted like chicken crap, RUSSIAN!