Geneva/Kinshasa — The UN named three human rights experts on Wednesday to lead an international investigation into killings and other crimes in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a move that risks a showdown with the government. The DRC has insisted that its own justice system is in charge of the inquiry with the UN providing "technical or logistical support". Some Western states and campaign groups said they had hoped for a stronger UN mandate. The announcement came a day after the UN Joint Human Rights Office in the DRC accused "elements" of the DRC army of digging most of the dozens of mass graves discovered in recent months in Kasai. Bacre Waly Ndiaye, a UN investigator from Senegal, will lead a fact-finding team that includes Luc Côté, a Canadian who worked on a previous UN inquiry into DRC atrocities, and Mauritania’s Fatimata M’Baye. They were named by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who has called for perpetrators to be prosecuted, includi...
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