Army: UN to demand that DR Congo investigate Indonesian peacekeeper’s death


JAKARTA, June 28 (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The United Nations is urging the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to investigate the recent death of an Indonesian soldier tasked with the body’s peacekeeping mission in the country, the Indonesian Military (TNI) has said.

The soldier, Sgt-Maj Rama Wahyudi, died on late Monday local time after being shot in the chest when his patrol was ambushed by “suspected members” of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group in eastern DRC, around 20 kilometres from the city of Beni in the country’s North Kivu province.

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