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NAIROBI, Kenya — A top U.N. human-rights investigator on Thursday blasted a U.N.-backed Congolese military operation targeting rebels in eastern Congo, calling its results “catastrophic.”
“Hundreds of thousands have been displaced, thousands raped, hundreds of villages burnt to the ground and at least 1,000 civilians killed,” Philip Alston, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, said. “In many areas, it is (Congolese soldiers) themselves who pose the greatest direct risk to security.”
U.N. officials are scheduled to discuss the situation today.
