"Fierce-looking French troops..."
Is there such a thing?
Congo observers slaughtered after unanswered pleas
By SUDARSAN RAGHAVAN
Knight Ridder Newspapers
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.
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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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[French] 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."
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/6066952.htm >>>Their stomachs were split open and their hearts and livers were missing. One man's brain was gone.
What? Gone?
TaRa, check this out.
