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UN Security Council Pressured to Address DRC Mapping Exercise Report

Photo: Hutu Young Men Massacred

According to sources at the United Nations, the UN Security Council is under pressure to examine the UN Mapping Report in the month of November 2010.  However, the sources add that the chances of the UN Security Council, led by the United Kingdom for November 2010, will is unlikely. The UN Mapping Exercise reports published on October 1, 2010 documents war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed by the Tutsi minority  Rwandan Patriotic army against the Ethnic Rwanda Hutus refugees and Congolese Hutu in Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1993-2003.

The report has raised controversy, but is widely accepted as the most objective detailed account to date of the crimes of genocide committed against the Hutus by the Rwandan Tutsi army.

Over the month, November 2010, The UN Security Council is expected to renew the DRC Sanctions regime and the mandate of the group of experts . The resolutions concerning the two bodies expire on November 30, 2010.

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