Killings in Kiwanja : the UN's inability to protect civilians
2008
"On November 4-5, 2008, an estimated 150 people were killed in the town of Kiwanja in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, half a mile away from United Nations peacekeeping forces. The event marks one of the worst killing sprees in North Kivu in the past two years. Most of those killed were summarily executed by forces of rebel commander Laurent Nikunda's National Congress for the Defense of People (CNDP) ..."--Page 1 "December 2008." 31 pages ; 27 cm
Vervaardiger
- Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Collectie
- NIOD Bibliotheek
Type
- Text
Identificatienummer van NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies
- ocn297226917
Trefwoorden
- United Nations--Armed Forces--Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Massacres--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kiwanja.
- Extrajudicial executions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kiwanja.
- Congo (Democratic Republic)--Politics and government--1997-
- Civil war--Protection of civilians--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kiwanja.
- Political violence--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kiwanja.
- Peacekeeping forces--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kiwanja.
- Civilian war casualties--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kiwanja.
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