The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the DRC, Roberto Garreton, has said that by the end of the first year of the conflict, it was estimated some 6,000 people had lost their lives, many of them civilians killed in retaliation for Mayi-Mayi or Interahamwe attacks on RCD-controlled towns. Another 500 people remained missing, according to his latest report, issued on Tuesday. Garreton, who visited the DRC twice over the year, said civilians remained hostile towards the RCD, and an “atmosphere of terror” prevailed in rebel areas. The war was perceived as foreign aggression, “both within and outside the occupied zone”, he added.
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