PRELIMINARY investigations by UN peacekeepers indicate Congolese army soldiers committed rapes, looting and other human rights violations after they retreated from the key city of Goma after its capture by M23 rebels.
The UN mission could not confirm reports that 72 rapes were committed in the Minova area, about 60km south of Goma, but its initial investigation found that several violations, including rape and looting, were committed by Congolese army elements, UN deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey said on Friday.
UN personnel are on the ground conducting further investigations and have expressed serious concern to Congolese authorities, he said.
The UN has been working with its partners and health authorities in South Kivu to make medical assistance available to survivors of sexual violence in health centres in the Minova area, del Buey said.
Since June, he said, the UN mission has also received allegations of serious rights violations, including killings and wounding of civilians, rape, looting and forced recruitment of children, by M23 rebels in Goma and neighbouring areas.
Del Buey said the UN mission can confirm the killing and wounding of civilians as well as looting committed by the M23 in Goma and surrounding areas. He said investigations into the allegations are continuing.
The Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group, made up of hundreds of soldiers who deserted the Congolese army in April, took control of many villages and towns in the mineral-rich east over the past seven months, culminating in the seizure of Goma on November 20.
It took days of negotiations and intense international pressure to get the M23 to withdraw from the city last weekend.
UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous told reporters after briefing the UN Security Council on the latest developments in eastern Congo on Friday that M23 has completed its withdrawal from Goma and regular activity has resumed at the airport.
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