• Britain is refusing to take part in a proposed European armed intervention in eastern Congo despite a growing clamour for an EU force to help avoid a bigger humanitarian disaster (The Guardian front page).
• Gordon Brown was accused of hypocrisy yesterday by human rights activists (The Guardian editorial).
• The European Union’s refusal to send in soldiers to bolster UN troops in eastern Congo could have scuppered the last chance of averting a humanitarian disaster, a leaked letter from the Secretary General reveals (The Observer).
• The case for an EU bridging force: Giles Foden in The Guardian
• Ban Ki-moon writes to European leaders to appeal for troops (Financial Times).
• Letter from David Miliband in response to FT editorial
• Responses to David Miliband’s letter from Human Rights Watch and
• Ilana Bet-El

‘It does not look as if it will be taken seriously by either the government or the police. Instead of acknowledging the gravity of the issue, Major-General Hussein Ali, the police commissioner, responded by calling the commission a meaningless busybody and challenged it to provide any evidence to back up its “rather infantile accusations”.’

But we trust that the courageous work of the Kenya National Human Rights Commission will have a legacy that outlasts the Major-General.

Christophe Nyambatsi Mutaka
President of Groupe Martin Luther King
Phone number: +243 997703479