UN Report Details Congo Carnage, Warns of 'Ethnic Cleansing'
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Geneva (AP) -- U.N. human rights investigators warned Friday of ethnic cleansing in central Congo, documenting the recent killings of more than 250 people, including 62 children, in violence with "no good guys and bad guys."
The investigators based their new report on interviews in June of 96 people who fled Congo's Kasai provinces into neighboring Angola over the three previous months. It decried alleged violence involving a recently formed militia, Bana Mura, backed by Congolese security officials.