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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10203

31 August 2010
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/drc
EU outraged by huge number of attacks and rapes in North Kivu this summer and calls for end to impunity

Brussels, 30/08/2010 (Agence Europe) - Speaking on behalf of the European Union, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton and European Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs expressed their “outrage and deep disquiet” at the mass attacks and rapes by the FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda) and allied Congolese armed groups - Mai-Mai - in the Democratic Republic of Congo between 30 July and 4 August. It is estimated that some 150...