- Title: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: CROWDS ATTACK UNITED NATIONS COMPOUND IN KINSHANSA
- Date: 2nd June 2004
- Summary: (W8) KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (JUNE 2, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF CROWDS APPROACHING U.N. COMPOUND 0.04 2. WIDE OF CROWDS OUTSIDE U.N. COMPOUND 0.09 3. CLOSE OF MAN HOLDING UP SIGN IN FRENCH "NO TO RWANDA AGGRESSION" 0.13 4. CLOSE OF BURNING THE U.N. FLAG 0.20 5. VARIOUS OF U.N. VEHICLE ON FIRE 0.37 6. VARIOUS OF CROWD THROWING STONES AT BURNING VEHICLE 0.40 (W8) KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (JUNE 3, 2004) (REUTERS) 7. VARIOUS OF CROWD APPROACHING U.N. COMPOUND 0.45 8. VARIOUS OF CROWD RUNNING AWAY AS GAS CANNISTERS SHOT INTO CROWD 0.55 (W1) KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (JUNE 3, 2004) (REUTERS) 9. WIDE OF MAN STANDING IN FRONT OF CONGOLESE ARMY TRUCK BURNING 0.59 10. WIDE OF CROWD THROWING STONES ON ANTI RIOT POLICE 1.05 11. CLOSE OF CHILD IN CROWD HOLDING MOBUTU PORTRAIT 1.14 12. HAV CROWD RUNNING IN STREET OF KINSHASA (SHOTS AUDIBLE) 1.17 13. SLV MAN THROWING STONE ON POLICE (SHOTS AUDIBLE) 1.28 14. VARIOUS OF ANTI RIOT POLICE FIRING TEAR GAS (SHOTS AUDIBLE) 1.38 15. WIDE OF CROWD RUNNING AWAY 1.44 16. WIDE/ PAN OF UN CAR BURNING IN FRONT OF US AMBASSY 1.54 17. VARIOUS OF UN TROOPS PATROLLING IN TOWN 2.04 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
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- Country: Congo, Democratic Republic of
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- Story Text: Congo crowds attack UN, rebel leader pulling back.
Frightened U.N. staff were holed up in their
compound in Kinshasa on Thursday (June 3, 2004), as tens of
thousands of rioters looted buildings and smashed cars in
the smoke-shrouded Congolese capital.
Some protesters arrived on large trucks and tried to
overcome the UN 's Ghanaian security contingent on Kinshasa
's main boulevard.
U.N. guards used tear gas and shot dead two looters
among a group that attacked a U.N. warehouse in the city, a
U.N. official said. Congolese riot police fired in the air
to deter looters.
State television said seven people had died, but the
toll could not be independently verified.
Some Congolese have turned against the U.N. force after
its failure to control the latest bout of bloodletting in
the east of the country, threatening a fragile peace
process.
Rioters looted houses used by U.N. staff, and beat one
international staff member, officials said.
Crowds laid siege to U.N. mission in Congo (MONUC)
premises in other towns across Congo, which some sources
said indicated a coordinated campaign.
Some protesters demanded MONUC head William Swing
resign, accusing the mission of complicity with Rwandan
forces that the government accuses of helping dissident
fighters capture the eastern town of Bukavu on Wednesday.
The fighters are aligned with factions of the RCD-Goma
rebel faction backed by Rwanda during Congo's five-year
war, which was officially declared over last year.
Civilians had also attacked U.N. offices in the central
town of Kindu and the southern mining centre of Lubumbashi.
U.N. staff also said civilian protesters had tried to
force their way into a compound in the northeastern city of
Kisangani, but peacekeepers had deployed two armoured cars
at the entrance.
Kinshasa has accused Rwandan forces of helping ex-rebel
fighters capture the border town of Bukavu on Wednesday.
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