Kinshasa — On 26 December 2012 at approximately 20 hours, two MONUSCO helicopters were 20 kilometers North of Goma undertaking a routine flying certification when they were fired upon; once from Kibumba and again from Kanyamahoro, two localities under M23 control.
This is the second time that UN helicopters have been deliberately targeted by M23 elements during the month of December 2012.
These attacks were reported to the members of the Joint Verification Mechanism (JVM) in Goma.
These unarmed utility helicopters are routinely used for medical evacuation for both UN personnel and civilians.
MONUSCO reminds that peacekeepers are in the exclusive service of peace, and that any attack against them constitutes a war crime. Those responsible for such acts will be prosecuted and brought to justice.
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THIS SOUNDS LIKE RUBBISH BY WHOM SO EVER TO EXASERBATE THE SITUATION SPEAKING ABOUT WAR CRIMES. IT IS A HUMAN TRAVESTY THAT THE EUROPEANS THE UN HAVE BEEN IN ONE OF AFRICAS MOST WESALTHY NMATIONS; THERE HAS BEEN LITTLE OR NEAR DEVELOPMENT EXPLOITATION OF THE HIGHEST REGARDS THEN YOU WANT TO CRY WAR CRIMES FOR SHOOTING AT AUN HELICOPTER ??? UTTER MADNESS; THE UN STIL AND WONT ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FROM THE CHOLERA OUT BREAK IN HAITI LOOK HOW MAN PEOPLE DIED!!!!! THAT WAS A WAR CRIME, PEOPLE PUBLISHERS NGOS GET YOUR ACYS TOGETHER THIS PUSHSING AND SPEAKING ABOUT WAR CRIMES IS JUISTY ALOT OF RUBBISH, WE HAVE EXPLOITERS WORLD PLUNDERERS MARGINALISING THE PEOPLE ROUND TRHE WORDL TRYING TO CEATE A MASTERS ERVANT ECONOMY [PEOPLE ARE DYING FROM UNECESARRY DEATHS DAILY THESE ARE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY ; THEY BECOEM WAR CRIMES WHEN THEY ALLOW FOR THIER WEAPONS TO BE SOLD FOR PROPHETS!!!!. AFRICA IS EVER EVOLVING THE NUN SEEMS TO WANT TO MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO WHERE WEALTHY WHITE NATIIONS STILL HAVE COLONIAL RIGHTS IN A SOVEREIGN FREE CONTINENT. I WILL REFRESH YOUR MEMORY RELAPSE THE EX PRESIDENT OF COTE d'IVOIRE WAS REMOVED BY OFFICE FORCIBLY BY THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE EX COLONIAL POWER FRANCE; WHEN THE PRESIDENT ASKED THE DIFFERNT NATIONS WHO HAD EMBASISIES TO LEVAE THEY TOLD HIM NO ??? WHO GAVE THEM SUCH AUTHORITY??? WHERE DOES THE UNITED NATIONS HAVER A AMNDATE TOP REGIME CHANGE FOR A FORMER COLONISER ???? WHY IS THIS PRESIDENT IN GAOL WHEN HE SIMPLY EXERCISED THE CONSTITUTION THAT WAS THE BEDROCK OF THE NATION!!!. WQE ARE CONTIUING TO SEE A WHITE SUPREMACIST COLONIAL RULE SYSTEM TRYING RAISE ITS UGLY HEAD IN AFRICA!!! WE ARE WITNESING THE WANTING TO USE MILITARY BULLYISM TO REMOVE GOVERNMENST THAT ARE NT SWAYED BY WESTERN IMPERIAL DICTATES. THE IDEA STILL LOOMS LARGE THAT THE WEST CAN WITH IMPUNITY DO AS THEY LIKE IN AFRICA. THE INSTYITUTIONS BUILT BY WHITES IN AFRICA WERE NEGLIGENT INCMPETENT RUINED EVEN FURTHER BY THE MASS CORRUPOTION THAT WAS ENGRAINED IN AFRICAN SOCETIES BY WHITES FROM EUROPE AND AMERICA. IT SOMETIMES IT IS SO DIFFICULT TO HEAR WESTERN GOVERNMENTS SPEAK OF WAR CRIMES IN AFRICA WHERE THEY THE FORMER DICTATORS IN AFRICA LEFT A AN EVEN MUCH MORE DISTURBING PICTURE OF GENOCIDE TORTURES MURDERS KIDNAPPIGNS RAPE CHILD MOLESTATONS HOMOSEXUAL RAPES; WOW!!! THESE DIRTY NASTY INHUMANE BRABARIC CRIMES ARE THE LEGACIES OFD THE WEST IN AFRICA!!!! WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FOR THE PEOPLE TO FOLLOW IF THERE WAS NOTHING OTHER TO LEARN ??????????????THE WEST NEEDS TO GET OFF THIER SOAP BOX ANS STOP PRETENDING THEY ARE WHOM THEY ARE ABSOLOUTELY NOT !!!! THIS HYPOCRISY MUST STOP ; THE IDEA THAT YOU ARE ADEMOCRATIC EXAMPLE TO THE WORLD IS AN ELUSIONS CERTIFIED ONLY IN YOUR MINDS !! "AS FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD THEY SEE YOU AS A DOMINATING BULLY, DICTATOR FACIST, RACIST, HEGEMONIST WITH A WORLD AGENDA THAT WILL NOT SURVIVE THE CENTURY!!!! NAT THE WEST WITH THIER DOUBLE STANDARDS THIER HYPOCRISY THIER CRIMINAL ENTER[PRISES THAT THEY RUN FROM GOVERNMENTS. THEY GO ROUND THE PLANET ASSISSINATING PEPLE CONTRACT MURDERS THEY USE ILLEGAL DRONE STRIKES MURDERING INNOCENTS BY THE THOUSANDS THIER WAR CRIMES ARE VIRTUALLY UNRECOGNISED, THEY ENJOY IMPUNITY FROM THE ICC AND THE UN!!!!. WHAT A LAUGH???? WHO IS EBING FOOLED BY ALL THIS TERROR THAT IS BEING HEAPED ON THE GLOBAL AUDIENCE BY THESE PEOPLE. THEY ARE NOW LIGITIMISISNG REGIME CHANGE RECOGNISING GOVERNMENST THAT THEY SOEM HOW OCNHURE UP AS LEGAL REPS OFR A NATION IN CIVIL WAR ONE THEY MANIPULATED. THIER LUST FOR BLOOD IS UNRELENTING THEY ACT AS VAMPIRES; THIS IS NOT GOING UN-NOTICED!! THE PEOPLE ON THE PLANET ARE CRYING OUT OFR THIS MADNESS TO END; WE HAVE ENDEMIC CORRUPTION IN THE WEST THEY HAVE STYFLED THE WORLD ECONOMIES DRAFTING THEM IN MAKING HUMUNGOUS PROFITS FOR THEMSELVES; WHILE BANKRUPTING THOSE THEY REELED IN.. WE SEE WESTERN GOVERNMENST TELLING ITS CITIZENS TO TIGHETN BELTS EVEN FIRING PEOPLE FROM GOOD JOBS, SPEAKING OF AUSTERIT,Y YET THE FININANCIERS ARE GAMBLING WITH PUBLIC MONEY WITH VIGOUR AND WHEN THEY LOSE THER BETS THE PEOPLE HAS TO PAY. WHEN YOU SPEAK OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY YOU NEED TO EB MORE DIVERSE AND SPEAK ABOTU RAL CRIMES. AFRICANS TODAY HAVER BEEN LIVING UNDER THE YOKE OF THE WST FOR CENTURIES EVEN INDEPENDNCE THESE IDEAS WERE FEIGNED; TODAY AFRICANS ARE SEEKING THEIR TRUE LIBERATION, THEY WITNESSED THE HYPOCRISY IN COTE d' IVOIRE THEY SAW THE PEOPLE LIVING BY A CONSTITUTION NOT A BY THE BULLET !!!. THE WEST THE UN INVADED THE NATION MURDERED PEOPLE WHY /// BECAUSE THEY WOULD NTO SURRENDER THIER IDEALS TO ALIGITMATE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT THAT HAS THE LAST SAY IN ANY MODERN DEMOCRACY!!!! THE WEST WONT SPAKL OF IT NEITHER WILL WESTERN MIEDIA THEY ARE AFARID TO REVOGNISE DESPOTISM ON THE FACE OF WESTERN NATIONS UNDERMINING A DEMOCRATICS NATION AND CHANGINMG THE REGIME TO INSATLL A MORE FREINDLY PASSIVE GOVERNMENT. GOVERNMENST THAT WILL ALLOW FOR ITS CITIZENS TO BE USE AND ABUSED BY WESTERN MULTI NATIONAL... THESE ARE YOUR WAR CRIMINALS THEY ALONG SIDE THESE MULTI NATIONALS WHO CREATE WASR SO THEY CAN HAVE ACCES TO CHEAP RESOURCES SO THEY FUND AND FUNNEL WEAPONS TO THES PROTAGONIST. AFRICA HAS NTO REACHED THE LEVEL OF SOPPHISTICATION FOR THERE TO EB ANY LIABLE OF INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES. YOU CAN NTO SIGHT WAR CRIMES IF A HELICOPTER DECIDES TO FLY INTO A WAR ZONE WIHTOUT ASKING PERMISSION FIRST. DO NOT TRY TO ABUSE THE LAWS !!! I9NTERNATIONAL; LAWS IN CERTAIN PARTS OF AFRICA IS NONSENSE JUST SUBTERFYUGE.
MONUSCO has contravened the UN principles of neutrality and impartiality by fighting alongside DRC government against Congolese nationals, the M23, who are fighting for a just and genuine cause!(negotiations in kampala). MONUSCO,s primary task, i think, was to fight against FOREIGN terroristic rebel groups like FDLR,and ADF using the DRC territory a spring board to attack stable states of Rwanda and Uganda respectively. Nevertheless, MONUSCO in support of a failed state has gone completely a stray of this objective and has indulged itself in political interests of certain imperialistic states and individual states interests making DRC more chaotic than stable . Imagine, MONUSCO is fighting alongside FDLR and government to kill CONGOLESE NATIONALS-the M23!! The whole world is watching,listening and analysing the trends of the UN games here. Somehow, we must include MONUSCO as a failed mission in the history of United Nations since the Second World War.