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DRC: M23 to "counter attack" the intervention brigade of the UN

 
Apr 14th, 2013 | By  | Category: Top news

Vianney Kazarama , the military spokesman of the rebel group M23 in eastern DRC, says the military movement has granted itself the right "to respond" when attacked by the United Nations' brand-new intervention brigade created last March 28th.

Kazarama told AFP that although M23 has no right to attack the latest expansion of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), he and his men reserved the right to "respond" and " defend" themselves. He added that the consequences of such a battle would not be attributed to his military movement.

"The Kinshasa government and the Security Council of the United Nations will be held responsible for everyone who becomes displaced and all the disasters that will occur because of the deployment of the brigade," he said.

Earlier, the military group denounced the creation of the brigade by the Security Council by stating that the UN was choosing for ''the option of war" instead of "encouraging a political solution".

"Now, the forces of the peace organ [The United Nations] will fight citizen groups that demand good governance  in our country" declared Bertrand Bisimwa, the movement's political President.

M23 has been terrorizing the eastern part of the DRC since its creation in April 2012, leading up to the take-over of the regional capital city of Goma in November 2012. MONUSCO has been heavily criticized for its lack of an offensive mandate that prevented UN peacekeepers from drawing unless they were attacked themselves.   The long-awaited approval came on last March 28th, when the mission was strengthened by more than 3000 peacekeepers in order to "neutralize the armed groups,  including the M23, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), the Allied Democratic Forces, the Alliance of Patriots for a free and sovereign Congo (APCLS), the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Mayi-Mayi."

Jane Nishimwe

Jambonews.net

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