Indian troops based in the North Kivu province are being accused of an array of crimes
Confidential reports by the United Nations contain 44 allegations
against the Indian battalion based in Congo-Kinshasa's North Kivu
province and known as INDBATT. The main report, dated 7 February
2008, describes a relationship between the Indian force and the
Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda
(FDLR). This militia is mainly composed of the remnants of
the Rwandan army responsible for the genocide of 1994, who fled
to Congo after the victory of Tutsi rebels under Paul Kagame, now President of Rwanda. The report says that six of these allegationshave been 'corroborated'. These involve:...
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