By Anti-Kabila
Kinshasa – Human Rights Watch on Thursday said security forces in Democratic Republic of Congo killed no fewer than 34 people during protests this week against President Joseph Kabila’s failure to step down at the end of his mandate.
Ida Sawyer, HRW’s Central Africa director, said that all the deaths occurred during the initial protests on Tuesday, raising the toll from an earlier count of 26.
She explained that the group was also verifying additional reports of deaths.
The Congolese government said 22 people died in the clashes, one of them a police officer.