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EU soldiers in the Congo?

Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Now France's Foreign Minister Bernard Couchner has called for 1,500 European soldiers to be deployed to the crisis region. Europe's press questions whether an EU military mission could indeed help the situation in the Congo.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Niemcy

The conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung doubts that the EU deploying a new military mission to the Congo will improve the situation there. "One has ... to ask whether [a European military intervention] could do anything to change the misery the people there have been suffering for years now. There is already a UN troop (Monuc) of 15,000 men in the Congo, around a third of which are deployed in the conflict region. One can accuse them of incompetence; but one thing is for certain: a European emergency mission made up of a thousand soldiers will not be able to rectify the unbearable situation in the country. Whether it's a struggle over mineral resources or an ethnic conflict, it's Africans who are doing the killing. Only the Africans can put an end to this atrocity."  (31/10/2008)

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Trouw - Holandia

The promised EU emergency aid to Congo is insufficient, writes Trouw newspaper: "Diplomatic pressure on the parties must be raised considerably. Even if Rwanda denies all participation in the current combat, there will be no solution to this brutal conflict without a constructive stance on Rwanda's part. In earlier settlements President Paul Kagame promised he would help with the disarmament, and possibly even with the return of the Rwandan Hutu rebels. That could do a lot towards difusing the conflict. The UK and the US should play a role here as partners and providers of development aid. But firm negotiations, if possible with an authoritative mediator from the region, are the only way out of this living hell." (31/10/2008)

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De Standaard - Belgia

In view of Belgium's colonial past the daily De Standaard considers Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht's announcement that the country would participate in an EU mission to the Congo "a risky turn" in Belgian foreign policy: "In the aftermath of the tragedy with the Belgian parachute units [UN Blue Helmets] in Rwanda people remembered that there is an unwritten law according to which former colonial powers are better off not sending soldiers to ex-colonies because it's too risky. Besides, the EU mission only makes sense if the structural causes of the violence in the eastern Congo are dealt with. ... The Congolese government's army should protect the people instead of terrorising them and finally make good on its promise to disarm the Rwandan Hutu rebels in eastern Congo. Reinforcements should be sent to the UN's Monuc peace-keeping troop so it can properly fulfil its mandate, which is already as comprehensive as it needs to be." (31/10/2008)

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Irish Examiner - Irlandia

The Irish Examiner believes the international community should intervene: "Nobody who saw the savagery of Rwanda's genocide 14 years ago, in which half a million Tutsis were slaughtered, will forget the dreadful scenes. The return of terrible instability to the region, the escalating refugee situation, the collapse of a UN-brokered ceasefire and the rebel siege of the Congo's eastern provincial capital Goma over a $5 billion dollar deal that gives China access to the country's vast mineral riches in exchange for a railway and highway network all conspire to create a frightening scenario. There may be a world economic crisis and there may be a presidential election in America, but the international community must do more to try to ensure that the dreadful slaughter of 1994 is not repeated." (31/10/2008)

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