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Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the (1) the findings of the report by the International Rescue Committee A Silent Crisis in Congo: The Bantu and the Twa in Tanganyika that between July 2016 and March 2017 more than 400 villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been destroyed, and (2) the findings of the report by UNHCR that in 2017 (a) 1.7 million people across the DRC were forced to flee their homes, (b) 3.9 million remain internally displaced, and (c) more than 600,000 refugees from the DRC are spread over 11 African countries.  HL6341

Question HL6341: tabled on 14 March 2018 and due for answer by 28 March 2018

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Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the (1) the findings of the report by the International Rescue Committee A Silent Crisis in Congo: The Bantu and the Twa in Tanganyika that between July 2016 and March 2017 more than 400 villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been destroyed, and (2) the findings of the report by UNHCR that in 2017 (a) 1.7 million people across the DRC were forced to flee their homes, (b) 3.9 million remain internally displaced, and (c) more than 600,000 refugees from the DRC are spread over 11 African countries.  HL6341
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