HRW: Surrendered Combatants Die at DRC Camp

A rights group says more than 100 demobilized fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo have died from starvation and disease in a remote military camp. In a statement Wednesday, New York-based Human Rights Watch called the DRC's neglect of the people at the Kotakali camp in the northwestern DRC "criminal." It called on the government to move everyone at the camp to a more accessible site, hold to account those responsible for the mistreatment, and encourage...

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