GOMA, Congo (AP) — Furious mobs stoned U.N. peacekeepers’ compounds Monday. Thousands of desperate people fled advancing rebel troops as chaos returned to eastern Congo. The chaos was fueled by festering hatreds left over from the Rwandan genocide and the country’s unrelenting civil wars. In what appeared to be a major retreat, hundreds of government soldiers pulled back Monday from the battlefront north of the provincial capital of Goma — fleeing any way possible, including using tanks, jeeps and commandeered cars. Soldiers honked their horns angrily as they struggled to push through throngs of displaced people on the main road.—-Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
U.N. attacks rebels to protect civilians
By The Associated Press
October 27, 2008