Elements from a mainly Tutsi rebel group in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are continuing their attacks on the civilian population, the United Nations reported Wednesday.
They continue to commit abuses, beating and detaining civilians and pillaging businesses and private homes, said the UN Mission in the DRC, known by its French acronym MONUC.
The abuses by members of the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP), led by renegade general Laurent Nkunda, were taking place in Kiwanja in North Kivu province, which has seen an upsurge in fighting between rebels and the government army, it said.
"I wish to tell Mr. Laurent Nkunda to put an end to these abuses and violations," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Special Representative Alan Doss told a news conference in Kinshasa, the Congolese capital.
"I have also asked the government to stop the actions of other armed groups in North Kivu, including the FDLR, which are not respecting the ceasefire and commit abuses," he said, referring to the mainly Hutu Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda.
"From the humanitarian point of view, the consequences for the civilian population are disastrous," Doss said of the resurgence in fighting, which has uprooted an estimated 250,000 people since August, in addition to the 800,000 driven from their homes by earlier violence.
Source:Xinhua
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