UN Security Council
2017

violence against the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) contingents and other international forces by armed groups or other perpetrators, paying tribute to the personnel of MINUSCA who sacrificed their lives in the service of peace, underlining that attacks targeting peacekeepers may constitute war crimes, reminding all parties of their obligations under international humanitarian law and urging the CAR Authorities to take all possible measures to ensure the arrest and prosecution of perpetrators, Welcoming in this regard MINUSCA’s efforts to protect civilians and to combat armed groups with the success of operation “BEKPA” in Bambari in February and March 2017, operation “MARAZE” in Bangassou in August 2017, and operation “DAMAKONGO” in Bocaranga in October 2017, Stressing the urgent and imperative need to end impunity in the CAR and to bring to justice perpetrators of violations of international humanitarian law and of abuses and violations of human rights, welcoming in this regard the progressive operationalization of the Special Criminal Court (SCC) and underlining the need to