The security situation in eastern Congo has reached alarming levels, says the country's Prime Minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Not all bodies have been identified. It is also unclear exactly how many of the dead are civilians or soldiers.
But a significant number of all the dead are civilians, she emphasized.
- There are more than 2,500 bodies that have been buried without being identified and an additional 1,500 bodies that are still in the morgues, she says.
A few weeks ago, the rebel group M23 and Rwandan soldiers took the city of Goma and have since advanced south. The militia now controls large parts of eastern Congo and according to the UN, hundreds of thousands have been displaced from the area since the turn of the year.
The mineral-rich Congo-Kinshasa has been plagued by conflicts involving dozens of armed groups for three decades.
