Fellow Citizens: hear hear ..hear ..hear.. isn't it rather amazing that the UN is talking about achieving a certain degree of " progress" in Disarming armed groups in Ituri...and yet even as the UN is making this claims you have over 20,000 refugees fleaing into Uganda as a result of aarmed conflict in Eastern DRC. So what on earth is the UN talking about. I guess the UN is so desperate for good news to emrge from Eastern DRC so much so that they have to manufacture one! ..in anycase of what use is it if as you are disarming "armed groups" Museveni and kagame are rearming the differents armed groups.? Even the UN should figure out that ones efforts to disarm fighter is pretty much fruitless unless one blokes the avenue through which armes are infiltrated back into DRC Congo!!!..which means one has to deal with Dictator Museveni , the warlord, who is very much responsible for supplying armes to figh ters in DRC Congo.
MK
DRC: Progress Made in Disarming Armed Groups in Ituri
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UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
January 13, 2005
Posted to the web January 13, 2005
Nairobi
The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, MONOC, has announced that efforts to disarm combatants in the troubled northeast district of Ituri, are now succeeding.
The number of combatants disarming "has increased and is growing", MONUC spokesman Mamadou Bah said on Wednesday at a news conference in Kinshasa, the nation's capital.
According to MONUC 2,031 ex-combatants had handed in their guns by Tuesday, and Bah said 12,664 arms and ammunition had been collected.
Until recently, demobilisation was reportedly floundering. "Fighters who do want to disarm are being killed or molested if they attempt to go to the transit sites," according to a statement issued in November 2004 by the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Bah said the situation had changed because of a number of factors. "There is no doubt that operations by [MONUC] to destroy camps of militia groups which had committed gross human rights abuses played a role," he said. "Since these operations, particularly one at Ndrele, many militiamen have spontaneously presented themselves in the transit camps to be disarmed."
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Bah also announced that MONUC peacekeepers had removed landmines and repaired the 144-km road linking the towns of Bunia, in Ituri District, and Beni in the neighbouring province of North Kivu. "The rehabilitation has allowed commercial traffic to restart thus the prices of goods in Bunia's market have dropped," he said.
[ This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations
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