Reluctant Recruits: Children and Adults Forcibly Recruited for Military Service in North Kivu

Submitted by crinadmin on Fri, 01/06/2001 - 07:25

Summary: The Report details recruitment efforts
since late 2000 by the Congolese
Rally for Democracy-Goma(RCD-
Goma) and the Rwandan army
troops who support itThis report, based upon a mission to the region in December
2000 and subsequent research, documents an intensive
campaign of forcible recruitment of adults and children begun by
RCD-Goma and its Rwandan allies in the last quarter of 2000.
Human Rights Watch researchers found evidence in December
2000 that Congolese soldiers of RCD-Goma and soldiers of the
Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) had abducted both children and
young men from roadsides, markets, and their homes.

A copy of the report can be found at
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/drc3/
Owner: Human Rights Watch

Articles:

Article 38: Armed conflicts

Article 35: Sale, trafficking and abduction

Article 9: Separation from parents

Organisation:

Human Rights Watch

Web:

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/drc3/

Tags:

Reporting to and monitoring the CRC

Link :

Countries

Congo, Democratic Republic of the

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