It's the UN again!
(Via Instapundit) Lewis MacKenzie in the National Post - Not qualified for the job in Congo:

A year earlier Mr. Thornberg had been tasked by then-Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to conduct an "efficiency review" of the UN with a view to enhancing the effectiveness of the UN's relatively small, yet bureaucratically paralyzed, staff. Mr. Thornberg submitted his comprehensive report on time and below budget. His primary conclusion was that there was an "old boys' club" that dominated the UN and that it posed an insurmountable obstacle to anything approaching real efficiency.

International civil servants and diplomats from developing countries, appointed by their parent countries on a rotational basis, frequently lacked the qualifications demanded by the UN's job description. More often than not they were successful in obtaining lucrative New York appointments as a direct result of their personal ties with their nation's leader. On arrival at the UN, their self-interest motivated them to perpetuate the system that rewarded those within their inner circle. Within two weeks of Mr. Thornberg's enlightened report landing on the Secretary General's desk it was shredded -- having been declared much too controversial! I have one of the few surviving copies.

"UN efficiency" - there's an oxymoron for you.

Meanwhile back in the Congo, Adrian Blomfield reports Nightly massacres defy EU force:

The tribal militia controlling the Congolese town of Bunia is carrying out nightly massacres, executing civilians and burying them in mass graves, despite the presence of a French-led European Union combat force, a Daily Telegraph investigation has established.

By day the military camp at Simbiliyabo on the eastern outskirts of Bunia looks like any other Congolese rebel installation, but at night it becomes a death camp.

At about 9pm every evening drunken Hema militiamen, high on drugs and their hatred for every other tribe, pour out of the base, nestling in lush green hills, to inflict terror on the residents of Bunia's suburbs.
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Dieu Donne was last in the line, lying face down in the dirt. "There were 10 soldiers. They took their bayonets and stabbed my father in every part of his body," he said. "Then they moved on to my neighbour, then the two boys and then my friend."

As they went down the line, they mocked the prisoners, all members of the Bira tribe, until now not directly involved in Bunia's bloody war. "They were shouting: 'Call the French, tell them to set you free'," he said.

Whew, good thing the French and UN peacekeepers aren't acting like cowboys!