Adam Day wrote an op-ed in The Hill, an excerpt of which can be found below.
Fourteen UN peacekeepers were killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo earlier this month, in what is being the “worst attack” on the UN in recent history.
The death toll is the highest since a 1993 gun battle in Mogadishu, and adds to the hundreds of UN peacekeepers killed in Congo to date.
Senior UN officials have been quick to lay the blame for the Dec. 8 attack on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a rebel group responsible for some of the worst recent massacres in eastern Congo.
Since 2015, MONUSCO (the U.N. Peacekeeping Mission) has targeted the ADF for neutralization, deploying attack helicopters, heavy artillery and hundreds of troops in a series of joint operations with the Congolese army.
