UN investigation details DR Congo ‘ethnic cleansing’

‘United Nations investigators have documented reports of “ethnic cleansing” and “extrajudicial or targeted killings” in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Kasai region, prompting the UN to call for urgent action to stop spreading violence.
Based on accounts from people who fled from Kasai between mid-March to mid-June, there were 251 extrajudicial killings, including 62 children, UN human rights investigators warned on Friday.
“Between March and June of this year our team documented a large number of killings, two hundred and fifty one killings of individuals, a large number of them children, sixty two were children who were killed in the context of a crisis and attacks going out on an ethnic basis but with government complicity,” UN investigators reported.
The UN investigators based their new report, included with photos of survivors with dismembered limbs and deep scars, on interviews with 96 people who had fled from Congo to neighboring Angola over the past three months.’
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