Congo-Kinshasa: Senior UN Humanitarian Official Urges End to 'Horrors' in Eastern DR Congo
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - Lamenting the immense suffering of the people in North Kivu and other parts of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where violence "has gone on for too long," a senior United Nations relief official touring the region today called for an end to the fighting.
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UN Must Take Stronger Action
Monday, December 17, 2012We are appealing to people of goodwill to join us in calling on the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice to assume the leadership role in taking stronger action against the Rwandan regime and those leaders identified as directly involved with supporting the M23 rebel group inside Congo.
Let's demand that the United States take all necessary diplomatic and political measures to bring an end to Rwanda's support of the M23 rebel movement inside the Congo. Let Ambassador Rice know that we consider the unnecessary suffering of the Congolese people to be a scar on the conscience of humanity.
Via the leadership of the United States the following should be done:1. Rwanda should be explicitly named in resolutions calling for an end to the aggression against the Congolese people by the Rwanda-backed rebels.
2. Sanctions should be imposed on High-level officials in the Rwandan government who are backing the M23 such as James Kabarebe and Charles Kayonga.
3. Rwanda should be sanctioned for violation of the UN sanctions regime and arms embargo due to its provision of weapons to militias in the DRC.
Send a tweet to Ambassador Rice at
@ambassadorrice or call the US Mission to the United Nations at
212-415-4404 and let Ambassador Rice know that you want the US to take decisive action against Rwanda's support of rebels in DRC.
Cuba: An African Odyssey
Friday, May 31, 2013
Washington, DC
7:00 PM
Film Screening of Cuba: An African Odyssey at Café Arte
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United Nations Official Mapping Exercise Report
On
October 1, 2010, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights published the official report on the United Nations Mapping Exercise, which documents atrocities, human rights abuses and crimes against humanity committed in the Congo from 1993 - 2003. The report was delayed by a month due to a leaked version that indicated that the Rwanda Patriotic Front might have committed genocide in the Congo.
The UN delayed the publishing of the report to give governments implicated in the atrocities more time to comment on the report, especially Rwanda who rejected the notion that it may have committed genocide in the Congo.
Visit the
FOTC UN Mapping Exercise Report resource center to download the report, read comments from the governments named in the report, read the latest news and analysis, watch and listen to interviews and read responses from figures such as Bill Clinton and institutions such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, and Global Witness. Not so surprisingly, the genocide prevention institutions in Washington have been remarkably silent on the contents of the report and the call by the Congolese people for justice.
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