A leaked draft UN report, to be released on Friday, alleges that the Ugandan army committed war crimes including massacres of civilians, torture, and the destruction of infrastructure, when it backed Congolese rebels who overthrew the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo between 1993 and 2003. Outraged, the Ugandan foreign minister condemned the report as "deeply flawed."He claims that the authors of the report based their assertions on claims laking proof without first consulting Uganda. As such, Uganda asserts that the report can threatened its commitment to peacekeeping missions such as the one in Somalia where troops from Uganda and Burundi are working to keep the UN backed government in power. Rwanda, who the report suggested committed genocide in DR Congo only retracted a threat to withdraw its troops from Darfur after a visit from the UN Secretary General.
by Szymon Kesek
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