GENEVA: Rwandan troops and Congolese rebels may have committed acts of genocide, the UN said on Friday, in a hotly contested report on massacres by foreign armies and rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The report, covering massacres carried out between 1993 and 2003, also implicated the armies of Angola, Burundi, and Uganda, provoking angry reactions from their governments.
Rwanda said it categorically rejected the report after failing to have it suppressed. Burundi said the report was designed to destabilise the region. Uganda and Angola also denied allegations against their armies.
At the UN, the Democratic Republic of Congo's government said it was appalled by the details in the report and demanded justice for the victims.
But the report also accused the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo, the rebel force led by Laurent Kabila. His son Joseph, now president of DR Congo, was fighting alongside.
The report, covering massacres carried out between 1993 and 2003, also implicated the armies of Angola, Burundi, and Uganda, provoking angry reactions from their governments.
Rwanda said it categorically rejected the report after failing to have it suppressed. Burundi said the report was designed to destabilise the region. Uganda and Angola also denied allegations against their armies.
At the UN, the Democratic Republic of Congo's government said it was appalled by the details in the report and demanded justice for the victims.
But the report also accused the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo, the rebel force led by Laurent Kabila. His son Joseph, now president of DR Congo, was fighting alongside.
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