UN to Send Additional Troop to DR Congo as Violence Escalates

The United Nations Security Council has announced they would send an additional 3,000 troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo as violence in the eastern portion of the country continues to escalate. While the UN voted to send the troops there has been no timeline as to when those troops would actually arrive.

Fighting between rebel troops led by Gen Laurent Nkunda and government troops has left more than 250,000 people displaced and in desperate need of humanitarian aid.

Nkunda has said his rebels are fighting to protect their minority Tutsi community from Rwandan FDLR Hutu rebels who fled Rwanda following the end of 1994’s genocide. Nkunda has accused the Congolese government of supporting the Hutu rebels. During a 100 hundred day period in 1994 more than 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by Hutu militants.

The UN already has a peacekeeping mission in Congo, MONUC, and the increase in troops would push the number to nearly 20,000 strong.

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