Overdue Accountability in Democratic Republic of Congo

By Human Rights Watch

Until now, the international response to the rapidly escalating crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has committed a litany of grave abuses, has been all talk and no action.But on Thursday, the United States government imposed financial and property sanctions on Rwanda’s minister of state and former military commander, Gen. James Kabarebe, and on Lawrence Kanyuka Kingston, a Congolese national and spokesman for the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC), a politico-military coalition that includes the M23.The reemergence of the M23 in late 2021…

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