New executions alleged in DR Congo

The main human rights group in the Democratic Republic of Congo has made new allegations of summary executions in a town in the east of the country.

The group, the Association for the Defence of Human Rights, said it had recent reports that boys and adult males had been rounded up and executed by President Laurent Kabila's forces in a military camp outside the town of Butembo.

The group repeated an appeal for an inquiry into events in the area.

The government rejected as baseless the group's previous allegation that some three-hundred civilians had been massacred in the town in an army attempt to eliminate Mai-Mai tribal fighters..

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service