One place where MONUC excels

Yet another former rebel has decided to call it quits and abandon the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) because of failing health. Major Jean Pierre Ndayambaje was brought to the Rwandan border by a MONUC ambulance, as yet another notch on the UN agency’s pad of voluntary repatriations. It has been said several times that MONUC has failed in its mission to disarm and repatriate Rwandan rebels holed up in the eastern DRC, and whenever they have managed to “convince” a few to return to their motherland, they have bloated their figures with non-combatants and none Rwandans, just to make their statistics look good to the powers that be in New York who hold the strings to the purse.