January 17, 2003
Silence from Amnesty & Human Rights Watch
by Celeste Bilby at January 17, 2003 3:53 PM
I know this sort of stuff is probably getting old, but where are Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International on the
"systematic cannibalism, rape, torture and killing by rebels in a campaign of atrocities against civilians in the forests of northeast Congo, with children among the victims"?
I've visited both sites, and the most recent documents I can find with the search term 'congo' are from December. Is forced cannibalism not a human rights concern?
The UN investigative team has confirmed a list of atrocities that read like a Brett Easton Ellis novel:
- the removal and consumption of hearts of infants,
- small girls killed and mutilated,
- people executed before their families
- the rape of small children
- cannibalism and forced cannibalism, including people made by rebels to eat members of their own family
I haven't found a single statement from either organization condemning such evil.
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