Mr. Guterres “stresses with the greatest firmness the need to establish responsibility for these events” and approves “the detention of the military personnel implicated in this incident and the immediate opening of an investigation”, specified in a statement a deputy spokesman for the secretary general, Farhan Haq.
In a video of the incident shared on social networks, we see men, at least one in police uniform and another in Congolese military, advancing towards the immobilized convoy on the other side of the closed barrier in Kasindi. , in the territory of Beni, on the border with Uganda. After a verbal exchange, we see the presumed Blue Helmets firing shots, before opening the barrier and crossing the post.
“Soldiers from the Intervention Brigade of the Monusco force returning from leave opened fire at the border post for unexplained reasons and forced the passage. This serious incident caused loss of life and serious injuries”, said deplored the UN mission in a press release.
“The toll is two dead,” said Joël Kitausa, a civil society leader in Kasindi, who reported 14 injured. Earlier, Barthélemy Kambale Siva, delegate of the governor of North Kivu in Kasindi, had given a report of eight seriously injured including two police officers from the border post.
