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Three Mobutu loyalists arrested

    NAIROBI

    The International League for Human Rights (ILHR) on Wednesday said three officials of the former Mobutu government were arrested in Kinshasa on Tuesday. In a statement received by IRIN, the ILHR said the three - Kamitatu Masamba, Kikata Ngina and Luzanga Shamandevu - were arrested after they and 19 other Mobutu loyalists had signed a statement in which they demanded the "liberation of the political arena in accordance with
    the Lusaka Accords." The three were taken to a military facility in Kinshasa, the statement said.

    Meanwhile, vice-president of the rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD) Moise Nyarugabo on Wednesday denied allegations made by the local association ASADHO that some of its human rights activists had been arrested in Goma and Kisangani, rebel-controlled radio in Uvira said.

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