Zaire ‘against killing probe’
NZPA-Reuter London Zaire apparently does not want an inquiry into charges that its Army massacred 215 young people last July, the International Human Rights Federation has said. Mr Daniel Jacoby, an official of the Paris-based federation. told a Brussels news conference that letters to the Zaire Foreign Affairs Commissioner . (Mr Nguza Karl-I-Bond) on arrangements for the inquiry had gone unanswered.
He read reports from the brother and father of two of the victims, stating that on July 19 soldiers opened fire on boys and girls prospecting for diamonds near Lusambo in east Kasai province.
Mr Jacoby said 215 of them \.ere killed, either bj’ bullets or by drowning in the nearby river. Mr Nguza denied the allegation last November, stating that three diamond traffickers had been killed in a clash with police. He supported the idea of the inquiry.
Since then, evidence had been destroyed, Mr Jacoby said. The federation named three representatives for the inquiry commission. They are a French lawyer, Mr Jacques Toutain; a French legal and Afritan expert, Mr Jean-Jacques Ducos; and a Tunisian lawyer, Mr Jacques Jazi.
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