Rapports

DATE=12/9/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-223876 TITLE=CONGO / PROBE (L) BYLINE=PURNELL MURDOCK DATELINE«IDJAN CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE TEAM OF UNITED NATIONS EXPERTS LOOKING FOR EVIDENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN CONGO-KINSHASA IS BEGINNING ITS INVESTIGATION IN THE NORTHWESTERN CITY OF MBANDAKA. AS V-O-A CORRESPONDENT PURNELL MURDOCK REPORTS,…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The United Nations investigative team in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is in Mbandaka but cannot yet start its field work. The team, which is in the country to probe allegations of human rights violations, on Tuesday morning met…

This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations. 1. GREAT LAKES A further 1,413 Rwandans have been expelled from the Goma area of the DRC over…

By William Wallis KINSHASA (Reuters) - U.N. investigators hunting for evidence of massacres of Rwandan Hutu refugees left Kinshasa on Monday on their first field trip to the interior of the former Zaire. A Hercules transport plane with 17 forensic scientists,…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS Another flight left Kinshasa for Mbandaka on Friday to delivery supplies in preparation for the deployment of United Nations investigators probing allegations of massacres. The delivery included vehicles, tents, water, and other equipment to be used by a larger team…

KINSHASA, Congo (PANA) - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is looking for 500 billion U.S. dollars at a donor's conference to finance its reconstruction, following more than a decade of political, economic and social turmoil, coupled with disastrous…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The United Nations Investigative Team in the Democratic Republic of the Congo arrived in Mbandaka on Wednesday. The team is in the country to probe allegations of human rights violations. A United Nations Spokesman said that the plane borrowed from…

AI INDEX: AFR 62/36/97 Democratic Republic of Congo: "The aggressors attacked this time in a U-formation... I saw Dathive behind me succumb to automatic fire... My lips trembled and a stream of tears flowed instinctively. I saw an inert female…

AI Index: AFR 62/33/97TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 1.1 Forces against the protection of unarmed civilians 1.2 International standards violated by parties to the conflict 1.3 Amnesty International's work for human rights in the DRC 2. Deliberate and arbitrary killings by…

DATE=12/3/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-223619 TITLE=CONGO / POL (L-ONLY) BYLINE=PURNELL MURDOCK DATELINE«IDJAN CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: SEVERAL OPPOSITION LEADERS IN CONGO-KINSHASA SAY THEY ARE NOW WILLING TO WORK WITH PRESIDENT LAURENT KABILA TO RE-BUILD THE NATION AFTER DECADES OF WHAT THEY CALL MIS-RULE AND NEGLECT. V-O-A CORRESPONDENT PURNELL…