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Volker Turk says his cabinet has been “confirmed” cases of rebels who kill and recruit children in Eastern DRC.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Tuesday blamed the Rwanda -backed rebels who seized a A second main city In the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for the murder of children and the attack of hospitals and warehouses preserving humanitarian aid.
Turk said in a statement on Tuesday that his cabinet “confirms the cases of summary performance of children from M23 after they entered the city of Bukav last week. We are also aware that children owned a weapon. “
He does not refer to specific events but Agency there is before Accused Both Congoan government forces and the rebels of the recruitment of children.
The Council of the United Nations organization earlier this month launches a committee that will investigate the atrocities, including rape and murders similar to “summarized executions” committed by both countries since the beginning of the year.
The statement said that Turk's office had received reports of “arbitrary arrests and detainees”, as well as abuse and “alleged forced returns of Congoan young men fleeing violence to neighboring countries.”
The M23 rebels on Sunday captivated Bukavu, the city of 1.3 million people after they seized Goma., 101 kilometers (63 miles) north last month. At least 3000 were reported killed and thousands displaced in the battles of Goma.
The M23 is the most famous of more than 100 armed groups fighting for the control of trillions dollars in DRC mineral resources, critical in the production of much of the world technology. The rebels are supported by about 4,000 soldiers from neighboring Rwanda, according to UN experts.
Rwanda accuses the DRC of having included Hutu fighter jets responsible for the 1994 genocide of minority tuts and moderate Huti. The M23 says it is struggling to protect Tutis and Congoan origin from Rwanda from discrimination and wants to turn a Congo from a failed country into a modern state – although critics say it is a pretext for Rwanda's participation.
Unlike 2012, when the M23 briefly seized Goma and withdrew after international pressure, analysts said the rebels were watching the political force this time.
For decades with the battle, more than 6 million people have displaced more than 6 million in the region, creating one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world.
