Patience Nyangove: WINDHOEK, Namibia — Civil rights activists said Monday that the Democratic Republic of Congo’s official investigation into the death of a human rights campaigner looks like a cover-up.
Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, the founder and leader of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) a political movement and rebel militia based in the Ituri region of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), goes on trial at The Hague.
RWANDAN genocide hero and inspiration behind the film Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina, says the east African country has neither healed from the 1994 genocide nor learned any lessons from it, as he accused the Rwandan government of continuing human rights abuses through the alleged arbitrary arrest and transportation of Hutus to work illegally in mines in the Congo.
It was November 23 1998, only three months after President Laurent Kabila’s one time allies had waged a full scale war to topple his new government, and they were threatening to overrun government forces and take over Kinshasa.
