CIAO DATE: 07/2011
May 2011
The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
Since 1996, conflict in the DRC has claimed, according to the International Rescue Committee, over five million lives, either as a direct result of hostilities or because of disease and malnutrition associated with the fighting. Considered the deadliest conflict since World War II, the targeting of civilians has been a hallmark of the violence. Millions have been killed and forcibly displaced. Women, men and children have been brutally raped, children have been abducted and forcibly conscripted, and towns have been pillaged.
Resource link: Tackling the Threat of Mass Atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Applying the Responsibility to Protect [PDF] - 176K