UN Troops 'Traded Gold for Guns'

UN Troops 'Traded Gold for Guns'

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Pakistani UN peacekeeping troops have traded in gold and sold weapons to Congolese militia groups they were meant to disarm, the BBC has learnt.

These militia groups were guilty of some of the worst human rights abuses during the Democratic Republic of Congo's long civil war. The trading went on in 2005. A UN investigative team sent to gather evidence was obstructed and threatened.

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[edit on 23/5/07 by Souljah]

As if the people of Africa do not suffer enough, they are not protected by U.N. troops, which are sent there to PROTECT them, either. Especially in the war-thorn country of Congo, which has suffered so much, but now that the U.N. troops are there, things are kind of not really any better; sex abuses in refugee camps and now trading Guns for Gold? Seriously - what is United Nations good for anyway?

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Got to say this don't sound good.
The U.N. does nothing fast so if anything is going to happen about this it may not be heard about for a long time.

Jesus man, we are going to have to start stations imbedded journalists into the UN peacekeeping operations if we are going to try and stop this as it happens. Either that, or severly fine their government of origin and bar them from future peacekeeping operation for a duration of time.