Article: Secretary-General `deeply disturbed' at reports of massacres in Democratic Republic of Congo; Demands respect for civilians' human rights.

M2 PRESSWIRE-8 April 2003-UN: Secretary-General `deeply disturbed' at reports of massacres in Democratic Republic of Congo; Demands respect for civilians' human rights(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

On 5 and 6 April, a United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) team visited Ituri villages around Drodro to investigate reports of massacres in the area, allegedly committed by militias against civilians in the last weeks of March and early April. The team found

20 fresh mass graves and ...

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