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Protest letter details “massive human rights violations”

    NAIROBI

    In the document, the DRC government alleged that the “crimes against humanity” committed by what it called the Rwandan-Ugandan-Burundian coalition during the month of August included massacres at Kasala, Kongolo, Kimbumbu, Nonge and Sola, all in Katanga province; disruption of the national polio vaccination campaign during clashes between the Ugandan and Rwandan armies in Kisangani; and other “blatant, deliberate and massive violations of human rights and international humanitarian law” in Katanga and Province Orientale.

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