DR Congo suspends officers implicated in mass rapes in what UN calls ‘important' step

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has suspended for further investigation the commanding officers of two of its battalions implicated in mass rapes and other human rights violations in what the United Nations today called "an important signal of the commitment of the Congolese authorities to hold the perpetrators of these crimes accountable."

© Nations Unies - vendredi 12 avril 2013