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1 DR Congo mass rapes ‘defy belief’: UN
by Hui Min Neo, AFP
Fri Sep 24, 1:15 pm ET
| GENEVA (AFP) – Three groups of armed militia raped at least 303 civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over four days, said a UN initial report on the atrocities whose “scale and viciousness… defy belief.”
“At least 303 civilians were raped, in many cases multiple times,” said a statement issued by the UN Joint Human Rights Office in the country in a preliminary report outlining the violations which took place between July 30 and August 2. “The known victims include 235 women, 52 girls, 13 men and three boys,” detailed the probe, following the team’s visit to 13 affected villages in the Walikale region in Nord-Kivu province. |
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