Speaking at the high-level segment of the Human Rights Council, held in Geneva, he recommended the adoption of sanctions against Kigali and insisted that the silence of the international community regarding the DRC is not synonymous with neutrality, but rather with complicity, Radio Okapi reported.

In his remarks, delivered the previous day, he accused Rwanda and the AFC/M23 of holding 30,000 artisanal miners hostage in Rubaya, forcing them to produce three kilograms of coltan per day.

He emphasized that in the year since the occupation of several cities in the east of the country, 17,015 attacks against life and physical integrity have been committed.

“A woman is raped every four minutes,” he detailed, adding that the conflict has displaced seven million people.

Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe denounced before the Human Rights Council what he called the “persistent denial” of the right to live with dignity and condemned the “marginalization” of Congolese Tutsis in eastern DRC, as reported by Actualité.CD.

Kigali called for condemnation of the hate speech propagated by Congolese representatives, for accountability for incitement to ethnic discrimination and persecution, and for guarantees that humanitarian access is guided solely by neutrality, impartiality, and urgency.

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