News | Paul Kagame
| US blocking UN report on Ntaganda rebels, Human Rights Watch says | |
BBC News - June 21, 2012 | |
 | The US is covering up information about rebels led by a man wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, Human Rights Watch has said. The global watchdog says Washington is blocking publication of a UN inquiry into rebels led by Bosco Ntaganda in the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
| UN Report Accuses Rwanda of Supporting Bosco Ntaganda Rebels | |
Congo News Agency - May 28, 2012 | |
 | An internal UN report obtained by the BBC says that Rwanda is once again supporting rebels in eastern Congo linked to renegade general Bosco Ntaganda. The report cites rebel soldiers who say they were trained to join the Rwandan army but were sent instead across the border to eastern Congo to fight alongside mutinous soldiers. |
| Tshisekedi Says He Won, Can He Prove It? | |
Congo News Agency - December 17, 2011 | |
 | Unlike the Independent National Electoral Commission, which has published the results of the presidential election showing why it says Joseph Kabila won and for everyone to see and scrutinize, Etienne Tshisekedi has so far provided no proof to support his claim of an outright victory. Yet, the longtime opposition leader has said, once again, that he now considers himself president. |
| Mining ban fails to end armed control of trade, says Global Witness | |
Global Witness - March 4, 2011 | |
 | The Congolese government's decision this week to lift a ban on the mining and export of minerals from the country's eastern provinces is long overdue, says Global Witness today. The campaign group questioned what has been achieved since restrictions were imposed nearly six months ago. |
| Rusesabagina Welcomes Congo Report, Warns of Another Genocide in Rwanda | |
VOA News - October 6, 2010 | |
 | Paul Rusesabagina, who is the subject of the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda, says the long history of conflict in the Congo is due in large part to conflict minerals. A Hutu who sheltered more than 1,200 Tutsi during the genocide, Paul Rusesabagina, says the report revealed unspoken truths about the region's history. He says the simmering ethnic tensions that triggered the 1994 genocide have returned to present day Rwanda, and warns the country is heading down the same path. |
| Action needed to investigate a decade of crimes in the DRC | |
Amnesty International - October 1, 2010 | |
 | The publication of the UN mapping report documenting gross human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a significant first step, but concrete action is needed to ensure that those responsible are held to account. The cycle of violence and abuses will only stop if those responsible for crimes under international law are held to account. |
| US Calls for Accountability after UN Report on Atrocities in DR Congo | |
U.S. Department of State/Philip J. Crowley - October 1, 2010 | |
 | As we contemplate the contents of the report, it is crucially important that we remain focused on the tens of thousands of victims in the DRC. Accountability is an important step toward ensuring that further such incidents do not occur. The United States is firmly committed to helping the DRC and other nations in the region take positive steps to end the corrosive cycle of violence and impunity. |
| UN releases D.R. Congo report listing 10 years of atrocities, identifying justice options | |
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - October 1, 2010 | |
 | The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights released Friday a 550-page report listing 617 of the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law over a ten-year period by both state and non-state actors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
| Ban Ki-moon arrives in Rwanda to discuss upcoming report on DR Congo rights violations | |
UN News - September 7, 2010 | |
 | Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived today in Kigali, where he plans to meet with Rwandan leaders to discuss the soon-to-be-released United Nations report on serious human rights violations committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1993 and 2003. |
| Key excerpts from UN report on Rwandan army genocide in DR Congo | |
BBC News - August 27, 2010 | |
 | The systematic attacks, in particular killings and massacres perpetrated against members of the Hutu ethnic group, are described extensively in section I of the report. These attacks resulted in a very large number of victims, probably tens of thousands of members of the Hutu ethnic group, all nationalities combined. |
