BURUNDI/DRC: Killing of civilians confirmed in Rusabagi, South Kivu Province

Burundian rebels of the Forces nationales de liberation (FNL) killed at least a dozen people in late August in Rusabagi, 85 km south of Bukavu in South Kivu Province of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), provincial Vice-Governor Jean-Pierre Mazangi told IRIN last Thursday. The Bukavu-based human rights NGO, Heritiers de la Justice, had earlier reported the raid.