Human rights

Ten years ago today, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights published his mapping report, a text on the most serious crimes committed in the DRC between 1993 and 2003 and especially during the two wars. of Congo. The village of Tingi Tingi, in the province of Maniema, is one of the places where some of these crimes took place: in March 1997, AFDL fighters, Alliance des forces democratiques pour la liberation du Congo - and RPA - the Rwandan patriotic army - killed Rwandans Hutu refugees there. These refugees were…

While the country has observed a moratorium since 1991, Kaïs Saïed voted for the death penalty after the murder of a young woman last week near Tunis. "Anyone who kills a person for no reason deserves the death penalty," the head of state said Monday night. Several NGOs point out that the death penalty has no preventive effect.…