AI press release: Escalating violence in North-Kivu (DRC)

Amnistía Internacional (AI) publicou hoxe unha nota de prensa sobre as violacións dos Direitos Humanos no conflicto armado que continúa na provincia de Nord-Kivu (República Democrática do Congo).

A nota de prensa leva por título “Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Escalating violence in North-Kivu deepens risk of mass ethnic killings”. Copio e pego un extracto:

[...] The organization [AI] warned of a growing danger that the violence could develop into a renewal of mass ethnic killings and other human rights abuses. Amnesty International is receiving reports from those fleeing the fighting of rapes and killings of civilians. Recruitment and use of children by armed groups in the Kivus has continued. [...]

Reports that the Rwandan government is, at the very least, conniving in the supply of manpower, arms and ammunition to an alleged war criminal like Laurent Nkunda are deeply worrying [...]

The DRC government has rewarded other alleged war criminals with senior command positions in its army. There can be little confidence that the government army will ever be capable of protecting civilians professionally and impartially as long as no action is taken to remove these individuals from their positions and bring them to justice. The international community, which is providing considerable financial and technical assistance to the country’s security sector reform programme, should be insisting on this. [...]