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UN Delays Congo 'Genocide' Report

   VOA News 02 September 2010
   U.N.  High  Commissioner  for  Human  Rights  South African Navanethem
   Pillay gestures during a press conference at the European headquarters
   of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland (File Photo)

Photo: AP

   U.N.  High  Commissioner  for  Human  Rights  South African Navanethem
   Pillay gestures during a press conference at the European headquarters
   of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland (File Photo)

   The  United  Nations  human  rights office says it will delay a report
   that accuses Rwandan troops of committing war crimes in the Democratic
   Republic of Congo during the 1990s.

   Human  Rights  commissioner  Navi  Pillay  said  Thursday  that she is
   postponing  the  report's  release  to  October  1 to allow "concerned
   states" time to comment on the findings.

   She  says  she  has  offered  to  publish these comments alongside the
   report.

   Rwanda  has  protested  the  report,  a  draft  of which was leaked to
   several  news  organizations  last month. The draft said Rwandan Tutsi
   troops  may  have  killed  thousands  of  Hutus  in  the  DRC during a
   cross-border Central African war.

   Rwanda  said  Tuesday  it is ready to withdraw its peacekeeping troops
   from  Sudan  if  the U.N. published what it called the "outrageous and
   damaging report."

   U.N.  spokesman  Rupert Colville has said the final report will differ
   in a number of ways from the draft leaked to media outlets.

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