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1 UN claims possible genocide in DRCongo
by Hui Min, AFP
31 mins ago
| GENEVA (AFP) – Rwandan troops and Congolese rebels may have committed acts genocide, the UN said Friday, in a hotly contested report on massacres by foreign armies and rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The report, covering massacres carried out between 1993 and 2003, also implicated the armies of Angola, Burundi, and Uganda, provoking angry reactions from their governments. Rwanda said it categorically rejected the report after failing to have it suppressed. Burundi said the report was designed to destabilise the region. Uganda and Angola also the denied allegations against their armies. |
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