Congo has two days to heed to UN calls to jointly investigate violence in Kasai province, or else it risks having an international human rights inquiry imposed upon it, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Zeid Al-Hussein said on Tuesday.
“The already dire situation in the Kasai provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to deteriorate, spreading to other provinces and across the border with Angola,” Zeid told the UN Human Rights Council.
“Unless I receive appropriate responses from the Government regarding a joint investigation by June 8, I will insist on the creation of an international investigative mechanism for the Kasais.”
UN investigators on May 15 said they discovered dozens of mass graves since the unrest began, including 17 sites found in April in Kasai.
Overall, the UN documented 40 mass grave sites and killings of more than 400…
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