Amnesty International appealed to Presidents Yoweri...

Amnesty International appealed to Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Paul Kagame of Rwanda to end atrocities by their troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Ugandan troops were reported to be involved in killings and other abuses against members of the Lendu ethnic group in Kibali-Ituri province in April and more than 500 unarmed civilians were killed by Ugandan and Rwandese troops fighting in Kisangani between 5 and 10 June 2000. On 20 April 2000, Ugandan and DRC troops killed at least 15 unarmed Lendu civilians in Rethy. About 250 Ugandan soldiers had arrived there four days earlier and confiscated weapons, mainly bows and arrows, from the local Lendu. Amnesty International also claimed to receive details about serious human rights violations committed between 5 and 10 June 2000 by Ugandan and Rwandan troops fighting in Kisangani, the capital of DRC's Oriental province. The violations were mainly characterised by indiscriminate shelling, extrajudicial executions of unarmed civilians and summary executions of captured soldiers.