The eastern DRC civil society group, Heritiers de la Justice, on Thursday urged the UN Security Council to take similar actions for the DRC as in East Timor, and provide the proposed UN peacekeeping force in the DRC with enforcement powers under Chapter VII of the UN Charter. "Heritiers de la Justice applauds the Security Council's courage and hopes that it will pay
the same attention to the Congolese crisis when the time will come to deploy a multinational force," the group said in a statement. "While many have expressed the view that the situation in the Congo would be too risky for such an operation, the Council this week authorised the East Timor force under Chapter VII in spite of threats made by militia groups against
UN personnel there."
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