Genocide Watch exists to predict, prevent, stop, and punish genocide and other forms of mass murder. Our purpose is to build an international movement to prevent and stop genocide.
– Genocide Watch advocates a large increase in efforts by MONUSCO to hunt down perpetrators of genocide in both the FLDR and Raia Mutomboki with robust funding and training from European and other African governments, culminating in a cease-fire monitored by MONUSCO.
– International relief organizations should establish safe refugee corridors and camps for IDPs.
– Genocide Watch demands that Bosco Ntaganda and all genocidists be arrested for war crimes and extradited to the ICC. The principle of subsidiarity–giving precedence to the national courts over the ICC–does not apply to Ntaganda, because the DRC referred his case to the ICC in 2004.
– Genocide Watch calls upon the Congolese government and neighboring governments to pass necessary legislation to build national institutions for justice and accountability, provide genuine local security, and pass and enforce laws that outlaw donor support of militias by foreign powers.
– There were genocidal massacres in the DRC during the period from 1993 to 2003 as evidenced by a draft report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
– The elections of December 2011 were marked by widespread fraud, and proved that the DRC needs to build democratic institutions. Dozens of people died in pre- and post-election violence.
– The mineral wealth in the eastern provinces of the DRC is a major cause of the ongoing conflict. Numerous militias controlled by rapacious warlords, as well as Congolese government troops exploit these minerals, while engaging in human rights violations on a large scale, including forcing civilians to work in the mines.
– MONUSCO, the UN Mission in the DRC, one of the largest UN Peacekeeping Operations in the world, has had a beneficial effect in some towns and regions, but it remains hopelessly understaffed, undertrained, under resourced and underfinanced.
– Genocide Watch welcomes the announcement by President Kabila that General Bosco Ntaganda will be arrested for war crimes. Genocide Watch demands that he be extradited to the ICC. The principle of subsidiarity –giving precedence to the national courts over the ICC– does not apply, as the DRC has referred the case to the ICC in 2004.
– Genocide Watch welcomes the first judgment of the ICC, convicting warlord Thomas Lubanga for the use of child soldiers. This case, however, also represents a missed opportunity to try crimes of sexual violence, because Lubanga was not charged with rape and other acts of sexual violence, such as sexual slavery, which there was ample evidence he committed.
– Genocide Watch calls upon the Congolese government and neighboring governments to pass the necessary legislation to build regional institutions for justice and accountability, with international assistance and financing, under Congolese, national and international law.
– Genocide Watch advocates a large increase in efforts to hunt down and stop perpetrators of sexual violence, carried out by regional forces with robust funding and training from European and American governments, the UN, and support from MONUSCO.
– Genocide Watch urges an exponential increase in funding for hospitals, especially to repair fistula and other maiming of women who have been raped.
– Genocide Watch urges investigation and arrest of perpetrators of sexual violence, other crimes against humanity, and genocide by a special unit of the International Criminal Court.