BBC News 15 October 2010 Last updated at 00:20 ET

DRC troops 'in rapes and murders'Margot Wallstrom, the UN's special representative on sexual violence, listens to villagers in Kitchanga, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

The UN says government troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo might have committed rapes and murders in an area recently attacked by rebels.


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