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"Only 15 percent of reported rapes occurred and 'it was in the nature
of women to be unfaithful.' "
-- Congolese army official

Well, at least it's free!

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"U.N. Official Assails Congo Operation"

By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, October 16, 2009



NAIROBI, Oct. 15 -- A top U.N. human rights investigator on Thursday
blasted a U.N.-backed Congolese military operation targeting rebels in
eastern Congo, calling its results "catastrophic."

"Hundreds of thousands have been displaced, thousands raped, hundreds
of villages burnt to the ground and at least 1,000 civilians killed,"
Philip Alston, the United Nations' special rapporteur on extrajudicial
executions, said in a statement. "In many areas, it is [Congolese
soldiers] themselves who pose the greatest direct risk to security."

U.N. officials are scheduled to discuss the situation Friday.

Alston's statement followed a trip to the vast central African nation
to investigate alleged state killings and other rights abuses. Much of
his visit focused on the east, where by some estimates a 15-year-long
conflict has killed more than 5 million people.

In the conflict's latest phase, the Congolese army has been trying to
flush out Rwandan rebels who for years have lived by force among
Congolese villagers. A U.N. peacekeeping mission is backing the
operation, called Kimia II, by providing food and other logistical
support. The United States has provided funding and diplomatic
support.

But the operation raised alarm when it started in January. Human
rights groups, aid workers and Congolese civilians repeatedly warned
that it would prompt rebels to retaliate against villagers, and they
questioned the wisdom of a mission carried out by underpaid, ill-
trained Congolese soldiers.

Ten months later, Alston said, poor planning and coordination have led
to "predictable and repeated killing." In one case, he said, Congolese
soldiers shot and beat to death at least 50 civilians living among the
rebels and abducted about 40 women, some of whom described being gang-
raped. The rebels apparently retaliated by massacring at least 96
civilians in the village of Busurungi who were accused of
collaborating with the army.

An epidemic of sexual violence has worsened, and such attacks "may be
particularly vicious" when they are intended to punish villagers for
allegedly backing the rebels or the army, Alston said.

"Women and girls -- including babies -- have been gang-raped, had
guns, wood, sand or glue inserted into their bodies, and had their
genitals mutilated," he said. "Some women have had fetuses ripped out
of their wombs by perpetrators. Victims have, in fact, quite literally
been raped to death."

Widespread impunity is at the root of much of the violence,
particularly when it is carried out by the military, Alston said. He
noted that a top Congolese army official said that only 15 percent of
reported rapes had occurred and that "it was in the nature of women to
be unfaithful."

Alston called for the indictment of five high-ranking army officials
accused of war crimes, saying their presence in the army "only serves
to mock human rights."

"No amount of sophisticated strategic rationalization should be
permitted to obscure that fact," he said.

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