Soldiers Mutiny Against Allied U.N. Forces
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Congolese soldiers fighting alongside United Nations peacekeepers against ethnic militiamen have mutinied, ransacking a U.N. camp in the east and firing on a peacekeeper helicopter carrying top commanders, U.N. officials said.
The mutiny forced the suspension of a joint U.N. and Democratic Republic of Congo operation to retake the eastern town of Tchei. The nation was formerly known as Zaire.
A U.N. source said mutineers pointed guns in the faces of peacekeepers and fired in the air while looting their camp.
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