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UN human rights mission "after ceasefire"

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    The UN Commission on Human Rights on Tuesday adopted a resolution calling for a mission to the DRC "to investigate all massacres carried out on the territory, immediately after the signing of a ceasefire". It expressed concern "at the preoccupying situation of human rights, particularly in the east". The Commission also "deplored the perpetration of recent massacres, executions, disappearances, torture, beatings, arbitrary arrest, sexual violence against women and children, and other human rights violations" in DRC. It nominated the Special Rapporteur for DRC, Roberto Garreton, to head an eventual inquiry. A previous mission led by Garreton to investigate alleged massacres by troops loyal to Kabila during the first rebellion was consistently stalled by the DRC authorities.

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