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DR Congo authorities 'hired thugs' to attack protesters

Top security and ruling party officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo appear to have "hired thugs" to attack peaceful demonstrators last month in Kinshasa, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

"On September 15, 2015, (armed youths) brutally attacked a public meeting organised by political opposition leaders to call for President Joseph Kabila to step down after his constitutionally mandated two-term limit ends in December 2016," the New York-based watchdog said in a report after observing the protest.

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