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investigation revealed that even more than 500 people have been systematically abused, especially women and children, in eastern Congo.

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TAZ: 09/09/2010

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was first out of 179 women and children to the speech, which were only a few days in late July and early August have been abused by the brutal militia. Then the number rose to 242 women, including young children and even men who were treated in the North Kivu province of international aid organizations and local physicians. But now, of another 260 victims, mainly in South Kivu Province, the speech.

Presumably there were actually more than 500 people who have been sexually abused, Atul Khare admitted, Assistant UN Secretary-General, responsible for peacekeeping missions, one in now before the UN Security Council New York. Khare was Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has been sent to eastern Congo to investigate the incidents. had a so-called punishment In operation, the Rwandan FDLR rebels in alliance with local Congolese Mai-Mai groups, tens of settlements in and around the village of Luvungi in the region attacked Walikale. Systematically distorted the rebel women and children from their homes and raped them in front of their relatives.

The punishment Mission had the FDLR announced in advance. She had notes pinned to trees and house walls, with a request that the people should not support the Congolese soldiers, "Otherwise we will kill you".

Khare took place during his investigations on the spot now for more information mass rapes in the area around the town Uwira, in South Kivu near the border with Burundi on Lake Tanganyika. Miki in the village of the 74 victims were 21 girls aged between seven and 15 years and seven men.

According to the UN mandate for the Congo it is for the blue helmets to protect the population. In the case Luvungi Indian peacekeepers were stationed a few miles away. They drove in those days even patrols along the main street of Luvungi - but of the rapes she had learned nothing, the spokesman for the UN mission in Congo.

It was really the object of the Congolese army, security to care, but "we have failed," Khare is now before the UN Security Council in New York to open. The actions of the UN were not enough, which leads to brutal consequences for the population in the villages, he said: "We must do better!"

Khare requested to improve the communication network, especially in the area. In the days of the FDLR attacks on several occasions, the radio masts had broken down around Walikale in North Kivu. Of technical glitches said the telephone operator. But there is speculation that the telephone was disconnected on purpose.