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italy has condemned monday's attack in eastern democratic republic of congo 3 people including the italian ambassador were killed several rebel groups are in the area but why are government and un troops struggling to contain the violence this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. it's being called a heinous and cowardly attack italy's ambassador to the democratic republic of congo his police guard and driver were killed in an ambush on their convoy near
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goma in the east the congolese government is blaming a rwandan hutu rebel group rights groups have warned of worsening violence in the area the un's refugee agency says more than 2000 civilians were killed there last year a record that's despite the presence of government troops and united nations peacekeepers will bring in our guests in a moment 1st this update from catherine sawyer. you are on a mission to true in north kivu province to visit a school feeding program one of the many world food programme projects supports in the democratic republic of congo the journey ended here in the virunga national park several kilometers from the provincial capital goma they talian ambassador his bodyguard and their driver were killed in a crossfire between pock ranges and gunmen during the numbers on that convoy several other people were injured. we are activating all the relevant institutions
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to get to the truth soon as possible about this cowardly attack that these 2 servants of the state of have suffered from and lost their lives. but beyond the shock of what has happened questions will be asked as to why the convoy did not have a un national police or army s caught in such a dangerous area the authorities in north keep saying they were not aware embassador was in town he says it had been cleared to use that tool without escorts the location of this attack is almost exactly the same place where 2 british. may 2018 so it's kind of real evidence of this long standing security lapse in the region it was also very close to where 6 were in the guards were killed in last month this is a fast major attack on a big u.n. organization like that. but the park is steaming with rebels who target game ranges civilians and other n.g.o.s convoys to steal kidnap and demand ransom the security
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problem however goes beyond this part of north kivu war than 70 rebel groups control much of eastern democratic republic of congo extorting villages and attacking their homes at will in beni north of many thousands of people including u.n. and government soldiers have been killed and more displaced by the allied democratic forces rebel group thousands. soldiers are on the ground battling different groups but with limited success we're looking in a kind of long standing funding issue for the for the congolese army in that area a lack of kind of security planning as well as strategy when it comes to trying to combat the armed groups who operate in that area. obviously the u.n. peacekeeping force that has been operational for a good number of years has a lot to answer for with regards to insecurity in that area. many congolese in this area has lived in constant fear hoping but not confident the forces that have
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struggled to defeat the rebels for yez will one day succeed catherine saw. u.n. peacekeepers have been in the democratic republic of congo for many years the most recent deployment has nearly 8 100000 troops their mission is to protect civilians and support efforts to bring stability since the year 2000 more than 200 peacekeepers have been killed fighting armed groups this includes a 2017 attack on their base in north kivu province that killed 15 soldiers it was described as the worst attack on u.n. forces in recent history. all right let's bring in our guests and bennie and democratic republic of congo maureen philippon country director of the norwegian refugee council and perturb david senior research consultant at the institute for security studies and then. was heavily with the center for research on the congo 'd kinshasa welcome to the
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program david let me start with you today what's the status of the peacekeeping force now in d.r. see why have they not been able to get these armed groups under control especially in north. whether you know the disc it's been in the sea is one of the biggest in the. early hours around 17 towers and in the. cincinnati imagine 9 will have a phone will 'd find the piece but also have a film will. win over the. partition of the activities of. the reality of. the sea is that. the place to look and orient. most of the look of them brought in its pieces of the forest. from former military
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officers and for him you have all this current. since you really dismissed the. mission and if you put all that in a political way because courses is not the order of the day well then the government has been. a lesson to be free and most of the time and where we have. been elected. without that capacity of possibility to deliver. the citizen then you will understand few of the talent in this nation is a compound that with and i was talking about the un withdrawing from our from the yes the findings as you suspected that is a need to see the question about the plastic the yes the. 3 and
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a particular to solicit just maureen earlier this month the un refugee agency sounded the alarm about what's been going on in eastern v.r.c. they said that last year more than 2000 civilian. ins were killed in 3 eastern provinces in a statement they also said atrocities committed by armed groups in the eastern democratic republic of the congo have become part of a systematic pattern to disrupt lives instill fear and create havoc let me ask you just how dire is the situation there right now. honestly there are in benny now and i've been speaking this morning to the displaced people some of them just living atrocities like less than a week ago it's difficult to imagine is difficult to imagine the level of violence trauma to see someone from your family being killed and then escaping as some people are right and then he went back to the field and the thought of that to be
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tried and tried to find something to eat and the father never came back and these are the kind of stories i've heard several planned this morning and so people are trying to make do to sue because her and but it's extremely challenging n.b.c. it's true in different parts of the courts not on the in the run anywhere it's people most. days but it's also true in knots who incites it was a way out so it's extremely challenging action of civilians even passively shoots. to be she sorry and. i it's a totally destructive you have to create and who's not working anymore are you losing somebody from your house or. and you just have to continue to find the energy to continue living this you pork you get from humanitarian act it is and is limited let's face it so we all would like to do more and probably is definitely
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you have to rely on their o 2 to continue living as much as they can thanks to either major issue come bali there's a lot of questions that have been raised about why exactly the italian abass or his convoy would be allowed to travel on that road where it was ambushed without a security escort the w.s.p. said the attack happened on a road that had previously been cleared for travel without security escorts from your point of view was this a lapse in security planning. it's so hard to tell a minimum is 24 hours from there so that their investigation is still ongoing but what's clear is that the a mess so there and his team followed the proper protocol from the un they contacted the un the s.s. went through the proper clearance to be able to travel the course sort of situation is to have seen i mean the pictures and videos are circulating where you know you
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did not have any protective gear there is no bullet proof they call and so on to move from the place a v.m. . questions have to be asked you know what are the armed groups operating in the area how is that impacting the region where they. saw us iran the area i mean just today we know even the precise location away that happened $37.00 separate dollars are that's close to where the committee is on is so are more so waiting for that is the bishop to find out what happened but from my perspective. believe panetta mission we have the convoy follow the public protocol to get the u.s. they needed to be able to travel to europe david eastern congo is home to many armed groups i just want to take a step back for a moment to look at the bigger picture here when we talk about these armed groups in that region who are they what are they fighting for. well you know
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when i said initially we have more than 150 group active in not in the d.l.c. some of them are local i think it might seem from the tool may your war that the congo face in 1907 when you're on this it could be law and that he is the came storming of a d.l.c. which is a way then long study in the military or detect mobile to sissoko and since then we have witnessed a pretty funny shut off for growth now among them i think it just it's something the pentagon as efficient been for the understanding of the of the u.s. except been you for example you have allied democratic force and then i'm group that had been there for a while to who was in. most of the security in that's where you got iraq to go to
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group to have a tendency to use the temple to simply impose was all cool tool to send a message that they want to send that seed in all the jihads are not on the under the sea initially if and was to get done but uganda fights most of them 70 but a sense that they have established in that yes they have been thought of human rights violations indian sites in this and all kinds of security in security in in that area and the difficulty is what we have yet to see. a force. minutes out of forces to defeat to defeated them every time there was on the part of some orders on when it was going to 16 that would be a no parson and sister talk about 2019 that enough to be aspect that new york partition i guess to prove what you see is if they leave the camps that ahead in the area they move to east or down bluey to report which would have. progress well
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the music with the populations and now becoming and created and i ducked and the area of insecurity in the touring you have apartments that's been created by record political groups. wish to present a particular. group and a vote would be attacked in all these that they want the government to be a tension with grievances in terms of access to land in terms of just a park in terms of the restaurant into the business of all of the people we come to build not give out of what we have the biggest problem i'm not i'm group and this much difference to go vote or no. it's body and if you go with beautiful and. better you it don't for example work has been creating the problem that's we can for years and they've illiterates newell's we receive we know that's
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a distinct you want benefits in from of this of course from the itself but also from our new part in countries to have a sense about it has become one of the major group in the region literally that has been split it. took to create a kind of proxy knights in between but also fighting against the populations. look in enough people where we have. the resume north high action from the over for a win that you know sides who jewels to live in and have them set in to see i guess the who won but the sense then there was no problem david i'm starting right now and i actually want to get back to asking about the abseil are in a moment because we're starting to run out of time let me ask a question of maureen right now when we talk about abuses in atrocities being committed against civilian populations there what specific examples are there and
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what sticks but you can read in before it and what people say and in some part of the east there is a lot of. not been used people at people attacking. sometimes like ammunitions and so and also when you use ammunition you get noticed so it seems that the patterns of fighting is more adamant with knives and then they start shooting so that people get. distracted and then they can't they can see. there's also a lot of rape they are child being children being recruited on groups. that you would also hear of not of kidnappings people being forced like because the last un. john doe is for human rights report and reporting on human rights violation from
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july to december and anti issued i think for that period of time but 500 people have been disappearing so the not only could not but we have no traces of them and that's about the center of kidnappings and a bit more of people being civilians being killed. so it's close your house is up and down your your videos his friends sat your harvest are stolen so it is the whole wrench of yet just brutal violence and attacks on computers combine the how much is political instability in the country playing into the violence that we're seeing. support for viewers to really understand the situation could come when not in the simplistic narrative ragtag rebels in the region and lawlessness any political interest i'm very clear about why we have a conflict in the can for the past to get paid naked now run the uganda congress
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members in the east have you better the convert question 9096 or 98 and continue to support press the rebel militias it's been documented in numerous reports progress across a spoke just before me and they can read the latest un group of experts report that was publishing december december 23rd in the republic clearly stated that in the region where. it's an ambassador was killed we have run soldiers rather soldiers out pretty in the part of the congo in the rich your area and i'm a sissy and then you're an area clandestinely and we do not know what they do and the congolese government hasn't disclosed that so we have the death of a diplomat of complete the driver from the program and others when we leave the discussion of it and we these rebels just running around without any police and interest will never address the fundamental issue on till the culture of impunity
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is addressed in the d.r. see we continue to see these killings and that can be stopped simply by following what the u.n. human rights office did 10 years ago the publish a report the marking exercise reports in this report documented 617 s.-a of mass human rights violation in the the r.c. you said i was up in the congo war crimes crimes against humanity a possible genocide if proven in the competent court and called for the creation of an international tribunal for the r.c. we had 2 u.n. experts killed in 2017 later catherine and michael sharpe well before. policy magazine says' doors called the from the united nation to address the cover up of the government we're going to do the same now that we have more deaths and the deficit continue over 6 nicholas people at that goal it is
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a say we need an international tribunal for carlo so the crash committed and co the people can be held accountable david where do things stand right now when it comes to the congolese security forces their capacities and also do you believe that the government there is going to start rethinking its strategy. i think. the challenges are very clear and big gaps and tend to see. the chip on fault for many years what was missing is the that we did and that is that with foreigners to court with. them the problem is the capacity of the sickness to force its idiocy we've been talking about the reform of the security sector in the senate for all that in the years they have been some will actually. press corps as a fight as before. and will it's citizens against the activist against or to quote unquote and creating the capacity to the possibility of the
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environment where we've been in 56 west years and didn't feel safe where people can look for different one part of the company to be part of that so there is a need to now to rethink a 2nd to september for getting the f. out of the city which has been much. and or just forces also a leap because i think for us to speak english speaking the talking about internet of certain somebody yesterday called has been our fault or. not is international community. into the direction of the government authorities and that you have to. question that to me since it did its don't seem to matter to those who continue to use progress to cross what device. or to actually what is the condition but they are in fact ordered to put a conference has become the means through which were to put after this plan is absolutely yes he can have
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a system all established over the net in that sense and so forth of this it remains very important in terms of performance in the capacity of this state to ensure security to a citizen and for. us to get some rain to. maureen with the scituate situation as dangerous as it is there how are humanitarian organizations and actors able to carry out their work how difficult is it. it difficult. same 6 amber last year at 20 n.g.o.s worker areas have been kidnapped in the east and they've been abducted and released it's a big figure it's a big figure n r c we've been answering to her wishes of the last year with no casualties and it's a mix of armed groups and criminal activities either so to the loose or somewhat related to 2. so it's extremely difficult some areas are out of reach
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because security and if we can't guarantee the security of our team obviously that's my number one priority and my number 2 priority is to assist as many police people as i can but i don't want to joke that i think if you're michael and so it is extremely difficult we are building networks acceptance we are working in our on our route you know our high security with reality acceptance and but this is always there is no it's misty and it's come by lee there are observers who say that peacekeeping peacekeeping operations there are simply failing what is your response to that. the peacekeeping forces 'd they have a strong mandate now to address some of the issue is i think i want to read just because the say that there is a lack of political will on the local regional and international level speaking
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specifically about the united nations look into the permanent members of the security council if they're lucky one accord iran being you persist ability in the r c in mixi hard for the 22000 contention of the united nation peacekeeping force the largest in the world to address the situation where we have a serious problem serious press and what can be addressed yesterday from britain a 2nd stuff i mean lumber look at them as a. lot of actually that could be prevented should have been where we are today discussing their space of people while working in the military and situation while where they had their i mean look i was in they got to look at say and the keepers around the world food program projects water food program say last year that $22000000.00 kohli's in the in the on the brink of starvation that's one
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of the 4 kohli's going to look at this project he lost these lives so on one hand you see a humanitarian solution provided to the sea way did not address the political problem and look a lost his life for the process stuff and the 30 or so their lives so i strongly believe that that's not a charity or many $3.00 and $8.00 will come with needs justice justice can be addressed with the creation of a tribunal that will send a strong signal in the end to impunity. rampant in the u.s. are right we have run out of times we're going to have to leave the conversation there thank you so much to all of our guests maureen philippon david zuma knew and come bali was heavily. and thank you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j.
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