Judith Suminwa Tuluka, Prime Minister, of the Democratic Republic of Congo said about 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in the eastern region.
During a high-level meeting, Tuluka told the 58th Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.
She said some 450,000 people are without shelter after 90 displacement camps were destroyed adding that the M23’s advancement is the gravest escalation in more than a decade of the long-running conflict in eastern Congo.
Rwanda however rejected allegations from Congo, the United Nations and Western powers that it supports M23 with arms and troops.
The prime minister urged the world to act and impose “dissuasive sanctions” amid mass displacements and summary executions.
“It is impossible to describe the screams and cries of millions of victims of this conflict’’, she added.
In the opening remarks, UN chief Antonio Guterres said that human rights around the world are being “suffocated” and referred to horrifying human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Reuters/NAN)
