A Mike Shum and Neil Brandvold video
UN intervention Brigade is it the solution to the DRC crisis ?
UN intervention Brigade is it the solution to the crisis in the DRC ? A filmed conversation between two young filmmakers and M23.
Thus we presented the video made by two young American filmmakers, Mike Shum and Neil Brandvold, while UN intervention Brigad is now militarily engaged alongside the Congolese army [FARDC] against the M23.
« We can say that MONUSCO is now working alongside the FARDC (Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo) in consideration of the security threat posed by the M23 against populations in Kibati but especially in Goma » said Lieutenant Colonel Prosper Basse, military spokesman of the UN, in a statement to Radio Okapi, the UN radio.
For almost four years the rebel group M23 has been in control of much of Eastern Congo. The group says that it is fighting the government of DRC, blaming it for its failure to honor a 2009 peace deal. The Kinshasa government says that the group’s demands were met,and instead accuses Rwanda of using the group as a proxy to fight and plunder the mineral rich region.
The U.N. Security Council in a first of its kind arrangement, authorized an offensive military force to mount operations against the rebels. The 3,000-troop intervention brigade will be in addition to the peacekeeping force of 17,000 U.N. soldiers — the largest U.N. peacekeeping mission in the world. The U.N. mission, which has been trying to stabilize the Congo since 1999, is funded with an annual budget of $1.35 billion.
Mike Shum and Neil Brandvold are young American filmmakers who were recently granted unprecedented access to the M23 controlled region by the group and its commanders. We spoke at length about their experience with the group and the prospects of peace returning to that region.
See the video :
See the video online : http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/20/congo-civil-war/2624757/
Also : http://www.upfrontafrica.com/2013/08/is-un-intervention-brigade-solution-to.html
See for more information : The Information Agency
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News
(english)
U.N. combat brigade fires on Congo rebel positions
(french)
DRC : MONUSCO « committed » alongside the Congolese army against the M23 (7sur7.be)
DRC : MONUSCO works alongside the Congolese army against the M23 (AFP)]
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