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Kinshasa protests meeting venue

    NAIROBI

    The Kabila government has protested the holding of an OAU human rights meeting in Kigali, saying it was “inadmissible” that the meeting be held in a country “at the heart of the aggression against the DRC”. Speaking on state television on Friday, DRC Human Rights Minister Leonard She Okitundu expressed his government’s “deep regret” that the OAU had chosen Kigali as the venue for the 26th session of the African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights from 1-15 November. “Has the African commission forgotten that war is...a flagrant and large-scale negation of human rights?” Okitundu said. He also questioned whether the commission would be able to properly examine in Kigali the complaint lodged against Rwanda by the DRC.

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