DRC: Eight former rebels boycott parliament

Eight legislators from a former rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have withdrawn from parliament after demanding an investigation into alleged massacres of Congolese Tutsis, known as Banyamulenge, in the east of the country. The parliamentarians from the former rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la démocratie (RCD) have left the capital, Kinshasa, for the eastern town of Goma. They told IRIN on Wednesday that they would not return to parliament.