Congo fighters boiled girls alive, says UN

MILITIAMEN in north-eastern Congo grilled bodies on a spit and boiled two girls alive as their mother watched, UN peacekeepers claimed yesterday.

The claims add cannibalism to a list of atrocities allegedly carried out by one of the tribal groups fighting in the area.

“Those responsible for atrocities will be brought to justice,” General Patrick Cammaert, the Dutch Navy commander of UN forces in Congo, told reporters in Kinshasa as he presented a report on abuses allegedly committed by the Patriotic Resistance Front of Ituri.