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The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) criticised on Monday the public debate on a possible operation of German soldiers in the Congo. „This discussion is rather bizarre because it pushes to the side possible political initiatives of the EU for the stabilisation of the Congo”, said the GfbV correspondent, Ulrich Delius. Sending a few hundred soldiers from Europe alone will not do very much to support freedom and democracy there.
Should the EU decide to send soldiers for the securing of the elections which have been planned for April, then Germany should also take part in such a mission. Four million dead from the war since 1996 in the central African country commit Germany also not to remain inactive if the United Nations request assistance. A military operation with only a few hundred men has not much more than symbolic value.
„Of greater importance is the question what measures the EU takes to stop the massive violations of human rights of its official Congolese partner and to give more concrete encouragement to the construction of a constitutional state in the Congo”, said Delius. It is true that the EU does provide massive financial assistance to the Congo, but the goals set have not been achieved in most areas.
So the EU must push ahead the coordinated reform of the new Congolese army (FARDC), support the building up of an independent department of justice, more effectively combat corruption and insist on respect for the freedom of opinion, press and meeting.
Just how great the need for action is in the reform of the new Congolese army has been made clear by recent reports of the UN peacekeeping force MONUC on massive violations of human rights on the part of the FARDC. Several dozen rapes, illegal executions, arbitrary arrests and the expulsion of civilians by soldiers of the new regular army were registered by the MONUC in the months of November and December 2005. „It the EU does not press for greater respect for human rights the FARDC will have lost its credibility with the civilian population before it has even been finally established”, warned Delius.
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