And again it was UN "peacekeepers" with the USA picking up the tab.
When my uncle was there, he was in the office of village priest. They were killing anyone that was Belgian, anyone coloured and any black person caught helping the aforementioned groups. I don't recall him mentioning Americans though. I would ask but he doesn't talk about it anymore. I wouldn't doubt for a minute there weren't christian missionaries from America there though but I don't know about government involvement.
The UN was rotten from the start with their involvement in Africa. There's a lot I can say but I started out with a good moood and want to end on a good foot :-)
This UN comedy has been going on for about eight years now, starting with a force of 500 they have, through successive resolutions, worked the military contingent up to 16,800 plus an unspecified number of "civilian" peacekeepers. The current UN budget is about 3/4 of a billion dollars a year with a list of about 25 countries contributing personnel - most of them from other African countries. In short, the Congo peace project has turned into a long term make work project for underemployed UN apparatchik's, another source of "jobs for the boys" and justification for taking expensive "fact finding" holiday luxury travel junkets to Africa at taxpayers expense.
I suspect that the rapists and kiddie diddler's must be from the UN African country contingents because from what I've heard from friends who have spent time in these parts of Africa, the hygiene conditions would dissuade most Europeans from close fraternization with the local females.