...boodling on the grand scale...
Panel of Experts’ report has accused the M23 rebel group of abductions, torture, and rape of women in northern Kivu -Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
The 21-page document — based on interviews with more than 230 sources and visits to the Rutshuru area of Congo's North Kivu province, where the M23 has seized territory — is expected to be published before the end of this week.