The United States and Britain, pushed officials of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to prosecute soldiers accused of raping women, a United Nations Security Council envoy confirmed today.
The United States ambassador to the UN Samantha Power and her British counterpart, Mark Lyall Grant raised the issue in a meeting between the UN envoys and Congolese ministers.
Speaking to Reuters, Samantha Power said,
“Nobody knows better than the Congolese price of impunity, because the Congo people have for years been victims of armed groups who have been killing and raping their way through eastern Congo.”