Rapporter om nye massakrer i kæmpelandets østlige del får topfolk i FN op at ringe, imens henved en halv million nu er på flugt fra overgreb og terror især begået af den frygtede M23 milits, som også bekæmper regeringshæren.
KINSHASA, 29 August 2012: Two senior United Nations officials Wednesday spoke out over reports of further massacres of civilians, beginning in early August, in the eastern DR Congo (tidl. Zaire) – the latest in a series of violent attacks by armed groups systematically targeting civilians in the area.
“The deterioration (forværring) of the overall security situation in North Kivu following the M23 mutiny and related ruthless attacks against civilians is extremely alarming,” the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for the DR Congo, Roger Meece, said.
The eastern DR Congo – particularly its provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu – has been plagued by violence over the past few months. One of the key actors is a group of renegade soldiers known as the 23 March Movement (M23).
The M23 has clashed with national army troops, which have been supported by peacekeepers from the UN Stabiliza-tion Mission in the vast country (MONUSCO).
This has caused massive displacement of local residents, in addition to raising concerns about the region’s stability.
On the humanitarian front, the fighting in eastern DR Congo has uprooted nearly half a million people over the past months.
They include some 220.000 people in North Kivu province, 200.000 in South Kivu province, and more than 51.000 who have fled to neighbouring Uganda and Rwanda (DR Congo grænser til ni lande).
The M23’s activities have led to condemnation from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council.
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