Saturday 24 May 2008
By AFPFour more mass graves were unearthed Saturday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo near a site where others containing around 100 bodies had been discovered, the United Nations said.
"The UN Mission in DRCongo (MONUC) ... discovered on Saturday four new mass graves, bringing to seven the number found in the past 24 hours at Maboya," UN spokesman Kemal Saiki said.
Maboya is situated in Nord-Kivu, around 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of the regional capital, Goma.
"According to statements given to MONUC officials by local sources, the graves contains the corpses of civilians -- men, women and children -- plus soldiers from various forces which fought for control of Maboya" between 1996 and 2003, the last two Congolese civil wars, he added.
MONUC estimated there were around 100 bodies in the mass graves discovered Friday, but had no initial estimate of the new discoveries.
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Eastern Congo
By D Barr -
I am wondering how bodies can be identified as soldiers. And if they are, can they be identified with a particular group? The catastrophes in Burma and China tug our attention away from the Eastern Congo and Darfur. What calamitous times we live in!