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UN Team Confirms Mass Rapes Occurred in Remote Villages in Eastern DR Congo

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–1 July 2011.  A joint United Nations assessment mission has confirmed that Government troops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) committed mass rape and acts of pillaging in several remote villages in the country’s east last month.

Residents of Nyakiele in the province of South Kivu told UN staff that troops serving with the Congolese armed forces, known as the FARDC, raped at least 121 women and subjected villagers to cruel and…

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