News | Ituri
| US State Department report on Human Rights Conditions in the DRC in 2006 | |
US State Department - March 19, 2007 | |
 | Armed groups continued to commit numerous, serious abuses--some of which may constitute war crimes--including unlawful killings, disappearances, and torture. They also recruited and retained child soldiers, compelled forced labor, and committed serious sexual abuses and other possible war crimes. |
| Grave human rights abuses by all sides mar DR Congo's transition from war, UN reports | |
UN News Service - March 12, 2007 | |
 | Summary executions, enforced disappearances, mass arbitrary arrests, ill-treatment and torture of civilians for their political affiliations as well as rape continued at an alarming rate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in a climate of total impunity in the second half of 2006, according to the latest United Nations |
| UN: Thomas Lubanga's indictment is the beginning | |
MONUC - March 6, 2007 | |
 | The United Nations envoy on children and armed conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy is on a six-day visit to DRC to discuss the issues of children associated with armed groups, sexual violence and impunity with the government authorities. In Kinshasa, on March 5, 2007, she spoke further about the aim of her visit before traveling to Ituri district and the Kivu provinces. |
| Another rebel group gives up arms | |
IRIN - February 28, 2007 | |
 | One of the main rebel groups in the troubled Ituri District of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) began surrendering its weapons on Tuesday under an ongoing demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration (DDR) process, military and United Nations sources said. |
| Peter Karim surrenders 170 troops | |
MONUC - February 27, 2007 | |
 | Peter Karim, commander of the FNI - the last remaining militia group in Ituri - made an important first step towards the consolidation of peace in the district on Tuesday February 27, 2007, with the surrender and disarmament of 170 of his troops at Dera, 60km from Kpandroma. |
| Army and police continue to violate civilians' human rights, says UN mission | |
UN News Centre - February 21, 2007 | |
| The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) reported that the human rights situation in the country continues to deteriorate, as the army and police perpetrate acts of violence against civilians and the number of reported rapes surges. |
| Ex-militiamen get life for murdering UN soldiers | |
IRIN - February 21, 2007 | |
 | A military tribunal in Ituri District, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has sentenced five former militiamen to life imprisonment for killing two United Nations military observers in 2003. |
| UN welcomes life terms imposed on murderers of two peacekeepers | |
UN News Centre - February 21, 2007 | |
 | The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today welcomed the life sentences handed down by a Congolese court on four men convicted of murdering two UN military observers in 2003 as well as life terms given 13 others accused of massacring civilians last year. |
| Child soldier recruitment continues | |
IRIN - February 19, 2007 | |
 | The recruitment of child soldiers has continued in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), despite the government's efforts to integrate former militia into the army, a local human rights official has said."Armed groups have even forcibly enlisted demobilised former child soldiers,"Murhabazi Namegabe, head of a local non-governmental organisation, the Bureau pour le Volontariat au service de l'Enfance et de la Sante, said in the capital, Kinshasa. |
| Mixing process underway in North Kivu | |
MONUC - February 15, 2007 | |
 | The mixing process of two of dissident General Laurent Nkunda's loyalist brigades with three FARDC brigades has been ongoing now since the start of 2007, in a bid to address the serious security problems posed by Nkunda's forces in the troubled Kivu provinces since 2004. |
