Meanwhile, in responding to questions regarding alleged human rights violations committed in the investigation of the January assassination of president Laurent-Desire Kabila of the DRC and the status of the commission created to investigate the killing, state attorney, Ngan Ngoy, on Tuesday told the UN special rapporteur [Garreton], that the commission was still active, RTNC TV reported. “[The commission] is still working as instructed by the head of state who had set it up...and trying to finalise the cases [of those detained by the commission],” Ngoy told RTNC. As for the detainees, Ngoy said that “according to [Garreton], he was of the opinion that it was a violation of these people’s human rights. I told him clearly that this is not the DRC’s stand.” According to Ngoy, Garreton also asked about individuals who had been extradited from Brazzaville, capital of neighbouring Republic of Congo (ROC), on suspicion of involvement in the assassination.
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