Thursday, April 14, 2005
PEOPLE DEAD; BIG DEAL
Not much media interest in this:
Human rights activists charged Tuesday that U.N. peacekeepers knowingly gunned down civilians in a raid that targeted a marketplace, pinning down dozens of people down during the biggest gunbattle in the U.N.’s six-year mission in Congo.
The human rights group Justice Plus listed names of several alleged civilian victims from a March 1 raid in eastern Congo and said they “paid with their life, while the mandate of the United Nations was to protect them."
The United Nations said its troops fired only when they were attacked, and that women and children were among those who fired weapons.
About 60 people were killed. Whatever; the women and children fired first! There is news on another shooting, that resulted in one death and received slightly more attention, here.