国連のアトゥール・カレ事務総長補佐（平和維持活動担当）が現地調査を実施し、国連安全保障理事会に提出する報告書で述べた。
東 部ウビラ町での２６７件の他、南北キブ州の他地域での発生が新たに判明した。国連は先週、北キブ州のルブンギ村内外で７月３０日から８月３日までの間、コ ンゴの反政府武装勢力や隣国ルワンダの反政府勢力「ルワンダ解放民主軍」などが約２４２人を暴行していたと報告していた。新たに判明した被害は８月１７、 １８両日、政府軍が南キブ州などで起こしたものでムビ村では民兵組織「マイマイ」も関与していたとされる。
カレ氏の報告書によると、ミキ村で８月２６日に発生した被害では、襲われた７４人の中に７～１５歳の少女２１人や男性６人が含まれていた。村落１カ所では女性全員が計画的に暴行されていた可能性もある。
今 回の大規模レイプ事件では、現地で平和維持活動に当たる国連コンゴ安定化派遣団（ＭＯＮＵＳＣＯ）の対策不足への批判も強まっている。事件については国際 医療支援グループが８月６日に国連に報告したと説明しているが、国連は最初、同１２日まで発生の事実は知らなかったと主張していたが、９月７日になって事 件発生の情報は７月３０日に得ていたと修正していた。事件に関する最初の報道は８月２２日だった。
また、７月３０日に国連の国連緊急援助調整官室がコンゴ東部で活動する援助組織に反政府武装勢力が村落を制圧し、レイプ事件１件が起きたことを知らせる電子メールを送っていた事実も発覚していた。
カ レ氏の現地調査はＭＯＮＵＳＣＯの事件対応の遅れの原因を解明することにもあった。ＭＯＮＵＳＣＯは、レイプ犯は襲った村落の周辺道路を封鎖して住民が被 害を外部に伝えることを阻み、民家を略奪、放火したとも説明している。国連はその後、レイプ事件の再発防止措置を強化する方針も明らかにしている。（CNN.co.jpより引用→http://bit.ly/c98wNh ）
(CNN) -- U.N. officials on Tuesday put the number of rapes and other sexual attacks in eastern Congo since late July at more than 500, more than double the previous estimate.
In remarks prepared for delivery to the Security Council after returning from a fact-finding trip to the region, U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Atul Khare cited 267 rapes or other sexual attacks in the town of Uvira -- on the eastern edge of the country -- and other nearby regions of North and South Kivu, in addition to the 242 rapes that had already been reported in and near the village of Luvungi.
Among the additional cases was a report of 10 women raped by members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo on August 17 and 18 in the community of Katalukulu, in Fizi territory, South Kivu, he said.
On August 17, at least 40 rapes were committed in the village of Mubi by an alleged coalition of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda and Mayi-Mayi, a militia group active in the region, he said.
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On August 26, Khare received reports of 74 cases of sexual violence -- including 21 directed at girls 7 to 15 years of age -- and six men in the village of Miki in the territory of Mwenga, he said.
The incidents occurred in July and August, he said.
Five days later, he said, 130 cases of rape were recorded in several villages in the territory of Shabunda. There were reports that in one village, "all women might have been systematically raped," he said.
Khare had gone to Congo to find out why peacekeepers said they hadn't learned about the rapes near Luvungi sooner.
The United Nations reported last week that some 242 people were raped by armed Congolese and Rwandan rebels in villages in North Kivu province between July 30 and August 3.
Attackers blocked roads and prevented villagers from reaching outside communications. Many homes were also looted and burned. Many of the victims were gang-raped by as many as six men at a time, according to the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The rapes were first publicly reported on August 22.
The United Nations initially said it did not learn about the attacks until August 12, when it was alerted by International Medical Corps. That group said it first told the United Nations about the rapes on August 6.
But on Tuesday, the United Nations acknowledged that it first learned of a report of rape on July 30, nearly two weeks earlier than it had previously said.
"We can confirm that the Daily Field Security Report from North Kivu on 30 July included the following: 'Today 30 July 2010 during morning hours, the locality of Mpofi (52 Km E of Walikale) passed under control of FDLR [Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda] combatants. One woman was reportedly raped and locals fled towards Walikale and Kibua. More information to be ascertained.'
"We can also confirm that, on the basis of this information, an e-mail was sent by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs transmitting information of the FDLR movement," it said.
The July 30 internal U.N. email was relayed to relief agencies working in the area and warned that the rebels had taken over the villages, and had already committed one instance of rape.
U.N. officials have said they will toughen efforts to stop rapes in the region.
"The women of eastern DRC deserve better," said Margot Wallstrom, a U.N. special representative for sexual violence in conflict who sent a senior member of her staff with Khare on his fact-finding mission to the region. "For them, there is no safe place. They are raped when harvesting crops; when going to market; when fetching water and firewood; when carrying their babies; when in their homes at night, among their loved ones."
She added that the rape is becoming a weapon of choice in eastern DRC. "The sad reality is that incidents of rape have become so commonplace that they do not trigger our most urgent interventions," she said.
Noting that the information about the rapes "was slow to surface," she called for the United Nations to focus on how to improve its response to such reports. "We should examine the U.N.'s response, including that of our peacekeepers on the ground, not in a spirit of self-recrimination but with a determination and resolve to do better to protect civilians in what is undoubtedly one of the most complex, vast and volatile conflict zones in the world."
She
noted that some rebel leaders have been identified as having been
present during the attacks and called for them to be used "as a starting
point" to bring the attackers to justice. "Our policies of 'zero
tolerance' cannot be backed by a reality of 'zero consequences,'" she
said.
nother 13 rapes occurred in Pinga area in Chuho market, he said.(from CNN.com→http://bit.ly/ca7So5 )