U.N. Probe Chief Biased, Regime Says
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President Laurent Kabila’s government alleged that the leader of a U.N. team sent to investigate alleged massacres of Rwandan refugees was biased, threatening to scuttle the probe for the third time. The team leader, former Togolese Chief Justice Atsu-Koffi Amega, said hours earlier that the Congolese government had raised new issues that he declined to identify and that he said threatened to derail the investigation.
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