The United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo on
Monday publicly rebuked the Kinshasa government for expelling the top UN
human rights official, as the Congolese ambassador accused the official
of “offensive behaviour”. Scott Campbell, head of the UN’s Joint Human Rights Office in Congo,
was expelled after the release of a UN report that accused the Congolese
police of abusing civilians during a crackdown on gangs in the capital,
Kinshasa.
“It is those who commit human rights violations and go unpunished who
tarnish the image of the DRC and weaken its security institutions, not
those who make them public,” the UN special representative in Congo,
Martin Kobler, told the 15-nation Security Council.
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