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UN defends 'robust peacekeeping' in Congo battle

UNITED NATIONS, March 3 (Reuters) - Lessons learned from the massacre at Srebrenica in Bosnia 10 years ago have changed the nature of U.N. peacekeeping, officials said on Thursday in explaining this week's killing of 50 militia fighters during a U.N. military operation in Congo.

The bloody operation at Loga Village on Tuesday was aimed at dismantling a militia headquarters in the Ituri region of northeastern Congo and was an example of "robust peacekeeping," said Margaret Carey, an officer in the Africa Division of the U.N. peacekeeping department.

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