You may get your wish Kevin. The UN might be stepping in militarily, as peace talks have already begun:
The UN force in the DRC - Monuc - has established a committee to negotiate an end to the killing
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UN probes 'orgy of ethnic violence' in DRC
April 08 2003 at 05:43AM
Kampala - The United Nations is checking allegations that almost 1Â*000 civilians were massacred in the "lawless" eastern Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last week in what some residents called a "three-hour orgy of ethnic violence".
Rebel militia leaders vowed reprisal attacks, but there was no word of new violence.
Troops from neighbouring Uganda secured positions in the DRC on Monday where the UN is investigating reports of the massacre. Uganda said 700 to 800 of its troops had taken up positions at the weekend to prevent more killing there.
The region has experienced rising bloodshed in recent months as a local ethnic conflict between the Hema and Lendu tribal militia has dragged in factions from the wider war.
Investigators heard 966 people had been massacred
The UN force in the DRC - Monuc - has established a committee to negotiate an end to the killings. Monuc said on Sunday that its investigators had heard 966 people had been massacred in Drodro, and had identified 20 mass graves.
Monuc spokesperson Hama-doun Toure said investigators had heard from local priests, tribal leaders and witnesses how the killing lasted for three hours around Drodro, a Hema town.
Uganda has traditionally been closer to the Hema tribe than the Lendu, but the latest conflict has seen Ugandan troops fight head to head against a Hema militia known as the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC), led by Thomas Lubanga and backed by Uganda's rival in the region, Rwanda.
After Ugandan troops expelled UPC forces from the town of Bunia last month Rwanda threatened to send its army back into Congo, kindling fears of open warfare between the two former allies.
Kulayigye said Ugandan forces estimated that the death toll in Drodro and the surrounding settlements was between 350 and 400.
But UPC officials accused Uganda of siding with the Lendu and using Lendu militia to contain the Hema.
This article was originally published on page 2 of The Cape Times on 08 April 2003
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