{"id":25903,"date":"2022-07-27T04:18:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T04:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=25903"},"modified":"2022-07-27T04:18:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T04:18:53","slug":"at-least-15-killed-as-anti-un-protests-spread-in-eastern-dr-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=25903","title":{"rendered":"At least 15 killed as anti-UN protests spread in eastern DR Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AL JAZEERA News:-  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 15 people have been killed on the second day of anti-United Nations protests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo\u2019s turbulent northeastern region, in attacks UN chief Antonio Guterres said could constitute a \u2018war crime\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Protests erupted on Monday as crowds took to the streets of North Kivu province\u2019s main city Goma against the country\u2019s UN mission \u2013 United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) \u2013 which they accuse of failing to stop armed groups\u2019 decades-old fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demonstrations spread further north to the towns of Beni and Butembo on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five people were killed in Goma and about 50 others were wounded, according to government spokesman Patrick Muyaya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven civilians were killed in Butembo, local police chief Colonel Paul Ngoma said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One peacekeeper and two UN police officers were also killed in Butembo, the UN mission said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/monusco.unmissions.org\/sites\/default\/files\/cp_la_monusco_annonce_la_mort_dun_casque_bleu_et_de_deux_membres_de_la_police_des_nations_unies_26_juillet_2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AL JAZEERA News:- At least 15 people have been killed on the second day of anti-United Nations protests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo\u2019s turbulent northeastern region, in attacks UN chief Antonio Guterres said could constitute a \u2018war crime\u2019. Protests erupted on Monday as crowds took to the streets of North Kivu province\u2019s main city Goma against the country\u2019s UN mission \u2013 United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) \u2013 which they accuse of failing to stop armed groups\u2019 decades-old fighting. Demonstrations spread further north to the towns of Beni and Butembo on&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25905,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25903\/revisions\/25905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}