The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rejected a UN ultimatum calling on two tainted generals leading the military offensive against Rwandan rebels in the country’s east to be replaced, reports Agence France Presse.
Justifying the decision to keep the military generals, who are on a UN list of known human rights violators, a government spokesperson Lambert Mende, said,
“We would only replace someone in the command if that person has been convicted by our military courts. Yet, no such thing has happened.”
UN officials have given Congo until February 13 to replace the two generals with the threat of withdrawing the UN peacekeeping services of MONUSCO, in the fight against militants in the east of the country.
Rejecting the ultimatum, the Congolese president said the generals would continue to serve.
Justifying the decision to keep the military generals, who are on a UN list of known human rights violators, a government spokesperson Lambert Mende, said,
“We would only replace someone in the command if that person has been convicted by our military courts. Yet, no such thing has happened.”
UN officials have given Congo until February 13 to replace the two generals with the threat of withdrawing the UN peacekeeping services of MONUSCO, in the fight against militants in the east of the country.
Rejecting the ultimatum, the Congolese president said the generals would continue to serve.