Det kan godt være, at den notorisk berygtede militsgruppe M23 er rykket ud af hovedbyen Goma igen, men det ændrer ikke på, at situationen er desperat for stadig flere fordrevne fra vold, overgreb og andre ydmygelser.
GENEVA, 3 December 2012: The humanitarian situation in the eastern part of DR Congo remains “extremely worrying,” a United Nations official said Monday, with at least 130.000 displaced persons in and around the city of Goma who fled the fighting in the area over the past two weeks and are in urgent need of basic services.
“The protection of the civilian population must be a priority for all, in line with the ongoing efforts of (FN-styrken) MONUSCO and international partners,” the Humanitarian Coordinator for the DR Congo, Moustapha Soumare, said to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), in Geneva, Switzerland.
The province of North Kivu, in the eastern DR Congo, has been the site of upheaval (omvæltning) and a humanitarian crisis recently.
Especially after the occupation of its capital city, Goma, by the feared 23 March Movement (M23) armed group, composed of soldiers who mutinied (gjorde mytteri) in April from the Congolese national army, known by the French acronym FARDC.
M23 har fået at vide, de skal holde sig i ro
Monitored by peacekeepers from the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO), M23 fighters withdrew from the city over the weekend, in line with requirements laid out by a regional group, the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR).
The communiqué also restricted the M23 outside of the 20 kilometre zone around Goma and called on them to cease all military activity while a long-lasting solution continues to be worked on.
In addition to uprooting tens of thousands of people and clashes with the FARDC, the conflict generated reports of targeted summary executions, widespread recruitment and use of children, unconfirmed cases of sexual violence, and other serious human rights abuses.
“Goma has a population of nearly 800.000 and while awaiting that the Congolese authorities regain full control over the city, one cannot exclude the risk of looting or renewed violence,” Mr. Soumare said.
“I call on all parties to honour their obligations under international humanitarian law to protect all civilians,” he noted.
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