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Garreton accepts invitation to open probe

    NAIROBI
    UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the DRC Roberto Garreton told IRIN today (Wednesday) he had “every intention” of accepting an invitation by the Kinshasa government to probe alleged rights violations. “Absolutely, after all it was me who asked for it in the first place,” he noted. The government of President Laurent-Desire Kabila on Monday invited the special rapporteur to return to the county in February. But Garreton said the exact date was now a matter of negotiation. He stressed his mandate was to investigate the human rights situation in the whole of the country during 1998, and not just probe alleged massacres in the east of the country in the run up to Kabila’s take-over in 1996. “I don’t exclude it, but as of today that is not my mandate,” he said.

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