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Human rights group criticises security forces

    NAIROBI

    A Congolese human rights group, the African Association for the Defence of Human Rights (ASADHO), has called on President Laurent-Desire Kabila to withdraw the Congolese army from villages east of the capital following alleged abuses against the civilian population. The association quoted residents who alleged that police and military units, including special
    presidential security units, had committed abuses at roadside checkpoints and during patrols in the Nsele district northeast of Kinshasa, Reuters news agency reported on Monday. "Several residents have been the victims of extortion, of blackmail and rape. Some have even been tortured by soldiers on patrol in the villages," ASADHO alleged. The group asked the Kinshasa authorities to dismantle the roadblocks, confine to camp the
    soldiers currently posted in the villages and prosecute those guilty of abuses, the report added.

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