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  • Huge U.N. Congo force fails against rebels - experts 25 Nov 2009 09:16 GMT
    ... KINSHASA (Reuters) - The massive U.N. peacekeeping effort ... referring to Congolese Tutsi CNDP insurgents. Congo's army, backed by the 25,000-strong U.N. force, launched ... neighbouring Rwanda, its enemy during a 1998-2003 war. In return for Congo's pledges to stamp ...

  • Congo mission has failed - UN 25 Nov 2009 08:55 GMT
    ... - Last Updated: Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 06:53 The massive ... referring to Congolese Tutsi CNDP insurgents. Congo's army, backed by the 25,000-strong UN force, launched ... neighbouring Rwanda, its enemy during a 1998-2003 war. In return for Congo's pledges to stamp ...

  • Congo Army Helps Rebels Get Arms, U.N. Finds 25 Nov 2009 05:31 GMT
    ... report says that the Congolese Army continues to funnel weapons to rebel groups ... gunpoint. Most of the fighting is not soldier versus soldier but soldier versus civilian, and ... one documented case, a commander ordered his troops to fire in the air to let ...

  • Congo Army Helps Rebels Get Arms, U.N. Finds (Today) 25 Nov 2009 07:32 GMT
    ... Congo Army Helps Rebels Get Arms, U.N. Finds By ... gunpoint. Most of the fighting is not soldier versus soldier but soldier versus civilian, and ... one documented case, a commander ordered his troops to fire in the air to let ...

  • UN 'failing' in Congo rebel fight 25 Nov 2009 09:03 GMT
    ... says the UN, fighting alongside Congolese government troops, has failed to halt the illegal mineral ... supply of arms and to recruit extra soldiers. The report says Rwandan fighters continue to ... armed group, despite integrating with the national army. It adds that they have expanded their ...

  • Congo's multinational rebels 25 Nov 2009 06:32 GMT
    ... months, I have been investigating connections between war crimes allegedly committed by the FDLR in ... including mass rape, murder, forced recruitments, child soldiers, using slaves to illegally exploit minerals. You ... "We have been losing a lot of troops through DDRRR (the UN's demobilisation programme) so ...

  • Africa: Congo: Trial Begins for 2 Accused of Ordering Children to Destroy Village 25 Nov 2009 02:37 GMT
    ... Two Congolese militia leaders sent child soldiers and other fighters to wipe out a ... are charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder, rape, sexual enslavement and ...

  • World Briefing | Africa: Congo: Trial Begins for 2 Accused of Ordering Children to Destroy Village 25 Nov 2009 05:55 GMT
    ... Two Congolese militia leaders sent child soldiers and other fighters to wipe out a ... are charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder, rape, sexual enslavement and ...

  • Rebels Free 22 Kidnapped Children 25 Nov 2009 07:37 GMT
    ... DR CONGO: Rebels Free 22 Kidnapped Children Written By:CISA ... and 11 were freed by Lord’s Resistance Army rebels Sunday night. According to MISNA, Fr ... has failed to defeat them, and the war has now spread to various parts of ...

  • Mass killing 25 Nov 2009 08:13 GMT
    ... A United Nations Commission of Inquiry is beginning an ... forces attacked the crowd in the stadium. Soldiers - including members of the Presidential Guard ... of people injured". "It is not an army of the people," he said. "This is ...

  • "The 2009: Year of the Ox, Gorilla, Astronomy or President?" 25 Nov 2009 08:11 GMT
    ... The 2009: Year of the Ox, Gorilla, Astronomy or ... for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. ... By the way, with this new European army in place, will the EU-NATO Member States ...

  • Congo warlords in the dock at Hague court 24 Nov 2009 00:10 GMT
    ... Reuters Monday, November 23, 2009; 6:18 PM THE ... HAGUE (Reuters) - The world's first permanent war crimes court opens its second trial on ... attack civilians, rape women and enlist child soldiers. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui are ...

  • Congolese rebels plead not guilty in war crimes trial - Summary 24 Nov 2009 13:52 GMT
    ... The Hague - Two former rebel leaders from the ... three judges. Ngudjolo Chui, jointly charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity, also entered ... are also accused of having used child soldiers - defined as a war crime under ...

  • 2 warlords plead innocent in Congo massacre trial 24 Nov 2009 13:14 GMT
    ... — Two Congolese militia leaders sent child soldiers and other fighters to wipe out a ... abducted and ordered to fight "as vanguard troops for the butchery of Bogoro." Former leader ... brutal Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army also are under indictment. Copyright 2009 The ...

  • Congolese rebel leaders plead not guilty as war crimes trial begins 24 Nov 2009 11:10 GMT
    ... The Hague - Two former rebel leaders from the ... war crimes, including willful killing. The former army commanders are also accused of having used child soldiers - defined as a war crime under ...


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