UNITED NATIONS: The Democratic Republic of Congo army has suspended 12 senior officers over mass rapes in the strife-torn east of the country, a UN spokesman said Thursday.
The action follows pressure from the United Nations which had threatened to withdraw cooperation with units implicated in 126 rapes in the eastern town of Minova in November as the army retreated from a rebel advance.
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