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March 3, 2005
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UN peacekeepers track militia groups in Congo

KINSHASA, March 2 (Xinhua) -- UN peacekeepers pressed an offensive against local militia groups Wednesday in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), said General Jean- Francois Collot d'Escury, chief of staff of the UN mission in the country.

The operations were being carried out in the Ituri region, where almost 250 Pakistani and South African troops on Tuesday killed at least 50 militiamen and destroyed two of their camps.

Collot d'Escury told a press conference here that the slaying was a "proportionate" UN reaction to the killing of nine UN peacekeepers last Friday.

"The militiamen have no choice but to disarm... If ...

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