UN EVACUATED 500 WOUNDED MACHAR,S FIGHTERS TO GOMA-DRC ARMY.










  
BY RED TIMES ON SEPTEMBER 8, 2016E.A NEWS



Reuters has quoted unreleased Congolese army report saying the UN mission in DRC has been transporting fighters loyal to Riek Machar to Goma.
It cited the report stating that beginning on August the 18, the UN organized three flights per day over three days from Dungu, some 75 km (45 miles) from the South Sudan border, to the eastern city of Goma, about 1,000 km to the south, for Riek’s fighters.

“About 500 fighters of (Riek Machar) have been evacuated and sent to Goma. Among them are the lightly, seriously and very seriously wounded who were treated by medical staff at the MONUSCO clinic in Dungu before evacuation to Goma,” Reuters quoted the report.

The fighters, who surrendered their weapons before boarding UN helicopters, were chased from South Sudan’s capital of Juba in July after heavy fighting with forces loyal to President Salva Kiir.
Machar, who is the country’s former vice president, was also injured and aided by the DRC mission, which is also known by its French acronym MONUSCO.
The rebel leader was then turned over to DRC authorities and is currently undergoing medical treatment in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.
The government of South Sudan often expresses and questions the neutrality and seriousness of UN in light of such activities. It has at times accused UN of championing a regime in South Sudan.
Last weekend the government questioned UNSC why the UN Mission in DRC transported Simon Gatwech. The chief of Riek’s army is under UN, EU and US sanctions.
UNSC said it was also expressed “concern” that Gatwech was airlifted by the UN. The airlifts were personally authorized by the UN SG according to his spokesman when he announced evacuation of Riek Machar.
Transporting Gatwech violates UN’s own sanctions against him

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