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Uganda: Monuc to Probe Officers Over ADF Rebels
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New Vision (Kampala)
9 May 2008
Posted to the web 12 May 2008
Columbus Tusiime And Henry Mukasa
Kampala
THE United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) is to investigate accusations that their soldiers supplied arms to Allied Democratic Force (ADF) rebels.
A statement issued by MONUC headquarters in Kinshasa said although there has been no indication that such activities ever took place, a probe was needed.
"MONUC has taken note of recent statements in the Ugandan media accusing its peacekeepers of supplying weapons to the rebels," the statement from the Mission's spokesperson noted.
"These allegations have never been conveyed to the Mission by the Ugandan authorities," the statement added.
On Tuesday last week the Defence Minister, Dr Crispus Kiyonga, said some UN peacekeepers were supplying arms to a rebel group that is re-grouping in eastern Congo.
Kiyonga said Uganda would protest to the UN Security Council. "The Government is upset with the conduct of some of these UN officers. We have intelligence information that they are giving guns to rebels," Kiyonga told Parliament said.
"MONUC has the capacity to flush out the negative elements but they keep giving excuses. The Congo issue is something the UPDF can handle. The problem is they are not allowing us," he added.
"We are writing a protest letter to the UN Security Council and the foreign affairs ministry has already been instructed to forward it. We shall take any route that leads us to total peace," he emphasized.
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ADF rebels invaded Kasese in November 1996. They operated from bases in the Rwenzori mountains at the Uganda-Congo boarder. They retreated to Congo in 2004.
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