Rwandan Reports Prompt U.N. Deployment

[Khephra]

KINSHASA, Congo -- Rwanda warned it will launch an attack "very soon" on Rwandan Hutu rebels sheltering in eastern Congo, the U.N. mission said Wednesday in an ominous development that raised fears of renewed central African conflict. A Rwandan official denied the allegations.

The U.N. responded by deploying an additional brigade of peacekeepers to the eastern province of North Kivu to address the threat and prevent any violence, U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said at U.N. headquarters in New York.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-congo-rwanda,0,6056261.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

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1. Watch for bloosdshed

The peacekeepers were useless in 94, and will be again, I fear. It's not them, it's the neutered peacekeeping mandate. They got slaughtered last time. Except for Romeo Dallaire, who is a hero to me. He tried everything he could to stop that madness in 94, and it haunts him to this day.

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2. Sad kick

What is it about Rwanda that makes it so easy for people to ignore? Sigh...

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