The European Union would send troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo as a last resort if the existing United Nations force needs to be reinforced and peace efforts fail, a British minister said on Saturday.
Well, they apparently need to be reinforced by at least one Spanish commander.
One only hopes they send actual troops, though, rather than Mad Mike Hoare and 5 Commando
By: Brant
Updates
The British have landed!:
David Miliband faced the toughest diplomatic challenge of his career yesterday as he departed on an emergency Anglo-French peace mission to end the violence in eastern Congo.
Mr. Miliband and his French counterpart, Bernard Kouchner, flew to Congo and Rwanda at just a few hours notice as warnings grew of a “humanitarian catastrophe” with tens of thousands of civilians fleeing fighting, looting and raping by armed groups.
“The situation is catastrophic, there is no other word,” Pierre Emmauel Ducre, the Red Cross’ spokesman in the Democratic Republic of Congo said as fresh reports emerged that Rwandan-backed Tutsi rebels had forced 50,000 civilians from the camps where they had taken refugee and burned them to the ground.
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