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DRC Mapping Report (2010)

UN human rights office report on serious violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1993 to 2003.

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1 Oct 2010
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What it found

Thus the apparent systematic and widespread attacks described in this report reveal a number of inculpatory elements that, if proven before a competent court, could be characterized as crimes of genocide.1

Who disputes it

  • Government of Rwanda 30 Sep 2010

    Rwanda categorically states that the document is flawed and dangerous from start to finish2

    Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo, in comments sent to the UN the day before the report was published.

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  • Goma field office of the mapping team Primary record 1

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Timeline 3 dates
  1. 30 Sep 2010 Government of Rwanda disputes a finding of DRC Mapping Report (2010) According to Government of Rwanda
  2. 1 Oct 2010 DRC Mapping Report (2010)
  3. 1 Oct 2010 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights authored DRC Mapping Report (2010)
Proof 3 sources
  1. Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1993-2003: Report of the Mapping Exercise documenting the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed within the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (English text is the OHCHR’s unofficial translation from the French original), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1 Oct 2010. Primary record
    Thus the apparent systematic and widespread attacks described in this report reveal a number of inculpatory elements that, if proven before a competent court, could be characterized as crimes of genocide.
    The five field offices were at Bukavu (South Kivu), Goma (North Kivu), Kisangani (Orientale)
    Report of the Mapping Exercise documenting the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed within the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  2. UN DRC report threatens regional security – Gov’t, The New Times (Kigali), 1 Oct 2010. Scholarship & press
    Rwanda categorically states that the document is flawed and dangerous from start to finish
  3. DR Congo: Q&A on the United Nations human rights mapping report, Human Rights Watch, 1 Oct 2010. Scholarship & press
    The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, with the support of the UN Secretary General, initiated the mapping exercise
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