UN troops 'traded gold for guns'

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news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6681457.stm

**Pakistani UN peacekeeping troops have traded in gold and sold weapons to Congolese militia groups they were meant to disarm, the BBC has learnt. **

These militia groups were guilty of some of the worst human rights abuses during the Democratic Republic of Congo’s long civil war.
The trading went on in 2005. A UN investigative team sent to gather evidence was obstructed and threatened.
The team’s report was buried by the UN itself to “avoid political fallout”. These events took place in and around the mining town of Mongbwalu, in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

 

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Another reason to get out of the UN. It is a worthless tool, used by terrorist and despots to increase their power. The UN has done nothing good in the last 20 years that could not and would not have been done better and more efficiently by other bodies.