Twenty peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) have been sent back to their home-country.

These repatriations were decided MINUSCA following the inquiry about the June 10th incident during which four individuals were apparently the victims of excessive force and possible physical bodily harm resulting in the death of two of them and one being hospitalized.

It is to be recalled that the Head of MINUSCA, Babacar Gaye, deplored the death and the injuries incurred on these individuals and stressed that these acts could potentially constitute serious human rights violations for which the perpetrators should be prosecuted.