Congolese ‘forced to eat relatives by rebels’

THE UN yesterday confirmed it had found evidence of cannibalism, mass executions, torture and rape

Thu, 16 Jan, 2003 - 00:00

rebels fighting in dense jungles of north-eastern Congo.

“The rebels forced people to consume body parts of their family members,” UN spokeswoman Patricia Tome said in the capital Kinshasa.

The report by the UN’s peacekeeping mission detailed systematic human rights abuses in two remote towns, Mambasa and Mangina, about 930 miles to the north-east.

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