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Article: Rwandese-controlled eastern DRC -- Devastating human toll.
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- M2 Presswire
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- June 19, 2001
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M2 PRESSWIRE-19 June 2001-AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Rwandese-controlled eastern DRC -- Devastating human toll (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
RDATE:19062001
Amnesty International today appealed to the different armed forces fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire) to halt further killings and other mass human rights abuses against unarmed civilians.
It is estimated that 2.5 million people have died in eastern DRC from war-related causes in the last four years. Since August 1998, Rwandese government forces have occupied most of this part of the DRC, an area equivalent to 16 times the size of Rwanda itself.
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