The Kinshasa government has documented a series of alleged breaches of international law and violations of the Lusaka ceasefire agreement in a strongly-worded recent submission to the UN Security Council. In setting out what it called “a systematic pattern of violations” of the sovereignty of the DRC, it was trying to stir the international community to react to “the international mess caused by the aggressor states” of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, Congolese Minister for Human Rights Leonard She Okitundu stated. “The procrastination - not to say, shameful inaction - of the Security Council is at odds with its primary mission and with the scope of the problems to be resolved in the war-stricken Congolese provinces,” the official letter stated.
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