Jiry Judges urged to convict Congo warlord Thomas Lubanga
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The village of Kasugho, which lies south-west of Lubero in North Kivu, is occupied by the Congolese army, the FARDC. The mainly Rwandan Hutu militia known as the FDLR are one kilometre away. It makes very little difference for the villagers. Their women are raped, their crops looted
stanley cup and their men are tortured and murdered by the Congolese soldiers inside the village, and they are raped, murdered and tortured by the Hutu exiles outside it. The only force capable of guaranteeing their safety is a UN peacekeeping force called Monuc. This is a force whose authorised strength is 20,000, but whose current strength includes 16,600 troops. Monuc s
stanley us specialist civilian protection unit is only 25 strong. Monuc has given various reasons why they are unable to provide permanent protection for Kasugho. One was that their trucks did not have the right tires.Kasugho is a microcosm of a disastrous operation of forced disarmament, launched by Congolese and Rwandan armies with strong international backing at the start of the year. Some 800,000 people have had to flee their homes in North and South Kivu since the operation was l
gourde stanley aunched, according to Oxfam, which is more than twice the number displaced when the latest round of fighting broke out last autumn. Whatever the aims of the latest operation were supposed to have been, the consequences of it have been nothing short of calamitous. Over 80% of the people interviewed by Oxfam in the Eastern Congo said that security was worse now compared to
