{"id":35070,"date":"2017-06-09T14:47:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T14:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/dr-congo-s-kasai-unrest-must-be-investigated-un\/"},"modified":"2017-06-09T14:46:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T14:46:55","slug":"dr-congo-s-kasai-unrest-must-be-investigated-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/dr-congo-s-kasai-unrest-must-be-investigated-un\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo&#8217;s Kasai unrest must be investigated &#8211; UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The UN human rights chief has called for an international investigation into massacres and crimes in Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s central province of Kasai.}<\/p>\n<p>Zeid Ra&#8217;ad al-Hussein said the government response had so far fallen short.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the decapitated bodies of 40 policemen were found, as well as the bodies of two missing UN investigators.<\/p>\n<p>The government has been fighting the Kamuina Nsapu militia in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting broke out in June last year after its leader Jean-Pierre Pandi called for a popular uprising with the aim of removing all state institutions and security forces from the region so that he could establish his chiefdom.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Pandi was killed two months later, after security forces raided his home, and his followers then took up arms.<\/p>\n<p>The UN says hundreds of people have been killed and more than a million displaced in central DR Congo since fighting broke out.<\/p>\n<p>It says at least 42 mass graves have been found.<\/p>\n<p>It had asked the government to agree to a joint investigation by 8 June, failing which it would call for an international investigation.<\/p>\n<p>DR Congo has been plunged into a constitutional crisis since President Joseph Kabila refused to step down after his term ended last year.<\/p>\n<p>A succession deal brokered by the Catholic Church, that would see Mr Kabila hand over power by the end of this year, has failed to resolve the crisis.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20690 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_95351301_kasai.jpg\" alt=\"There have been months of unrest in Kasai, after a local chief started a rebellion\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The UN human rights chief has called for an international investigation into massacres and crimes in Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s central province of Kasai.} Zeid Ra&#8217;ad al-Hussein said the government response had so far fallen short. In March, the decapitated bodies of 40 policemen were found, as well as the bodies of two missing UN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35070"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35070"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}