~Panthera~
06-04-03, 19:49
Congo massacre 'leaves 1,000 dead'
By Mark Dummett
BBC correspondent in Kinshasa
There has been recurrent fighting in the region
Survivors of a massacre in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have told UN human rights investigators that nearly 1,000 civilians were killed last Thursday on the eve of talks to bring peace to the war-ravaged Ituri district.
The investigators from the UN peace-keeping mission in Congo (or Monuc) flew into Drodro - near the border with Uganda - on Saturday where they interviewed eyewitnesses and visited mass graves.
The Monuc spokesman in Kinshasa, Hamadoun Toure, said survivors in Drodro town had compiled a list of 966 victims of a killing spree that lasted three hours, early on Thursday morning.
Devastation
The investigators who went to Drodro - some 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the district capital, Bunia - said they spoke to community leaders, priests and 15 eyewitnesses.
This is the worst single atrocity since the start of the civil war
UN Congo mission chief
Hamadoun Toure
They visited the sites of 20 mass graves, where they reported seeing the traces of blood and the clothing of victims.
Forty-nine survivors of the attack in Drodro hospital bore machete and bullet wounds.
The killings occurred just before the launch on Friday of the negotiations most people hope will bring an end to the cycle of appalling inter-ethnic and factional violence that has devastated north-eastern Congo during the past four years.
Local groups say the clashes that started out as a simple land dispute between pastoralists and farmers have killed more than 50,000 people and displaced a further 500,000.
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Kan the US HIER ook even naartoe ??
OH nee.....sorry......zit geen olie geloof ik.
En de regering is ook gewoon PUIK natuurlijk. :duim:
Net als Mugabe....ook zo'n vriendje van ze ??
By Mark Dummett
BBC correspondent in Kinshasa
There has been recurrent fighting in the region
Survivors of a massacre in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have told UN human rights investigators that nearly 1,000 civilians were killed last Thursday on the eve of talks to bring peace to the war-ravaged Ituri district.
The investigators from the UN peace-keeping mission in Congo (or Monuc) flew into Drodro - near the border with Uganda - on Saturday where they interviewed eyewitnesses and visited mass graves.
The Monuc spokesman in Kinshasa, Hamadoun Toure, said survivors in Drodro town had compiled a list of 966 victims of a killing spree that lasted three hours, early on Thursday morning.
Devastation
The investigators who went to Drodro - some 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the district capital, Bunia - said they spoke to community leaders, priests and 15 eyewitnesses.
This is the worst single atrocity since the start of the civil war
UN Congo mission chief
Hamadoun Toure
They visited the sites of 20 mass graves, where they reported seeing the traces of blood and the clothing of victims.
Forty-nine survivors of the attack in Drodro hospital bore machete and bullet wounds.
The killings occurred just before the launch on Friday of the negotiations most people hope will bring an end to the cycle of appalling inter-ethnic and factional violence that has devastated north-eastern Congo during the past four years.
Local groups say the clashes that started out as a simple land dispute between pastoralists and farmers have killed more than 50,000 people and displaced a further 500,000.
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Kan the US HIER ook even naartoe ??
OH nee.....sorry......zit geen olie geloof ik.
En de regering is ook gewoon PUIK natuurlijk. :duim:
Net als Mugabe....ook zo'n vriendje van ze ??