The U.N.'s top human rights body was holding an urgent session on Friday on spiralling violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels recently captured a key city and some 3,000 people have been killed and nearly as many injured since late January.
The special session of the Human Rights Council was called by Congo with the support of dozens of countries. The government in Kinshasa urged the 47-member-country council to hold Rwanda and the M23 rebels who captured the city of Goma responsible for crimes against humanity, and to create a fact-finding mission to examine rights abuses in the area.
