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UN Probes Congo Slaughter: What about Possible US Involvement in the Invasion of Zaire?
By Georgianne Nienaber (about the author) Page 2 of 2 page(s)
Near the regional capital of Kisangani, thousands of Hutu refugees from Rwanda were murdered on a railway line, their bodies cremated in a disused quarry before the ashes were dropped into the Congo River. The second was at a town called Mbandaka in the north, where up to 2,000 refugees were caught trying to cross the border into Brazzaville and were massacred while the town watched.
A story on the MONUC Site quoted a Red Cross worker.
“A soldier brought an eight-month-old baby so we could bury him, but we said, we can't bury someone living. He took a stick and he hit the child on the head until he was dead.”
Then, in September 2005, three mass graves were found to the north of Goma.
As OPED NEWS has reported, amid ongoing violence in Democratic Republic of Congo's Nord Kivu province, Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a one hundred page report denouncing "horrific" crimes perpetrated there against civilians. HRW is the only organization thus far to compile a report.
"Renewed Crisis in North Kivu," can be found at: http://hrw.org/reports/2007/drc1007/, and is worth the time and effort for anyone interested in this ongoing and ignored war.
"Efforts to resolve the conflict have not yet brought relief for the local population," HRW's senior Congo researcher Anneke Van Woudenberg said in a statement.
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Georgianne Nienaber is an investigative environmental and political writer. She lives in rural northern Minnesota, New Orleans and South Florida. Her articles have appeared in The Society of Professional Journalists' Online (more...)
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