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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jean-Yves Kamale and Mark Banchereau

Congo files an ICJ case against Rwanda over decades of violence in eastern Congo

Congo Court - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Congo said Friday it has filed a case against Rwanda at the International Court of Justice, accusing its neighbor of bearing legal responsibility for more than three decades of violence that has devastated eastern Congo.

Congo accused Rwanda of breaching international conventions on genocide, racial discrimination, discrimination against women and torture. It said civilians in the east have suffered massacres, extrajudicial killings, torture, sexual violence, forced displacement and ethnic and gender-based discrimination since the 1990s.

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