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Last week in the DROC the UN suffered its greatest loss of peacekeeper life since the Battle of Mogadishu, with at least 15 Tanzanian peacekeepers being killed by the insurgent group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).

In reading about this I came across the unique mandate of MONUSCO - the UN mission in the DROC - that enables them to pursue unilateral, unprovoked offensive actions which seems to violate, in spirit if not in letter, the Third Principle of Peacekeeping as put forth by the UN.

My questions is: Have member states of the UN voiced any reaction to this sort of operation? Not necessarily just this one, but I am unaware of a similar example

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This change from purely peace keeping to peace enforcement was authorized by the UN security council at the request of the secretary general in 2013.

Various steps along the way have been met with some resistance, specifically the use of drone reconnaissance but mostly countries agree that the conflict is a problem.

I don't think there are any similar examples.

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