In response to the deadly crackdown on a demonstration in Goma (North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo) on 30 August, which left around fifty people dead and many injured, the EU condemned the “excessive and disproportionate use of force”, as denounced on Friday 1 September by the European External Action Service (EEAS).
“We expect the investigation launched by the Congolese authorities to quickly identify those responsible and to hold them accountable for...