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20 UN peacekeepers repatriated from CAR to home country

Xinhua, July 10, 2015 Adjust font size:

The UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic ( CAR), known as MINUSCA, said Thursday that it has repatriated 20 peacekeepers to their home country, who allegedly used "excessive force" on four people, killing two of them.

"This follows the inquiry concerning the incidents on June 10, in which four individuals arrested during a security operations were apparently the victims of excessive force resulting in the deaths of two of them and the hospitalization of a third man," UN spokesman Dujarric said at a daily news briefing here.

"At that time, the special representative of the secretary- general for CAR, Babacar Gaye, deplored the deaths and injuries and stressed that these acts could potentially constitute serious human rights violations for which the perpetrators should be prosecuted," he said.

However, the spokesman did not disclose the name of these peacekeepers' home country,

Concerned with the security, humanitarian, human rights and political crisis in the Central African Republic and its regional implications, the UN Security Council authorized on April 10, 2014 deployment of a multidimensional United Nations peacekeeping operation, MINUSCA, with the protection of civilians as its utmost priority.

Its other initial tasks included support for the transition process; facilitating humanitarian assistance; promotion and protection of human rights; support for justice and the rule of law; and disarmament, demobilization, reintegration and repatriation processes.

MINUSCA subsumed the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA) on the date of the establishment. On Sept. 15, 2014, the African-led International Support Mission in the Central African Republic (MISCA) transferred its authority over to MINUSCA, in accordance with resolution 2149. Endite