A/HRC/4/7 page 7 25. On 30 August, a soldier belonging to the 683rd Battalion of FARDC of Nyunzi, 180 km west of Kalemie, was summarily executed by the Republican Guard. At least nine people, including seven civilians, were abducted and subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by soldiers of the aforementioned Guard. 26. The daily report of the OHCHR field office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo dated 12 October 2006 stated that MONUC condemned the illegal detention of 130 persons, including 9 minors, 9 women and 2 infants, at the Inspection provinciale de Kinshasa (IPKIN), since 21 September 2006, for reasons unknown. Moreover, MONUC’s Human Rights Division had stressed that it should not be up to the city Governor but to a judicial authority to decide on the fate of those people. 27. On 21 November 2006, three mass graves were discovered by MONUC and the Bunia military prosecutor’s office in a FARDC military camp in Bavi, near Gety, Ituri district. According to information that reached the independent expert, the bodies of some 30 men, women and children, who had disappeared three months earlier, had allegedly been buried there. 28. The non-governmental organization called “Journalistes pour la promotion et la défense des droits de l’homme” (JPDH) (Journalists for the Promotion and Defence of Human Rights), in a press release published on 22 October 2006, expressed its disquiet about the disappearance since 20 August 2006 of Doctor Soso Gesevene, Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba’s medical adviser. Moreover, the investigations undertaken by MONUC’s Human Rights Division to check that he was still alive did not yield any result, which makes one fear the worst. 29. The daily report of the OHCHR field office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo dated 11 December 2006 stated that, on 7 December, two people - a woman and her baby - were killed by the police and three others were seriously wounded during incidents involving the population of Popokabaka, located 160 km from Kenge in the Kwango district (Bandundu region). B. Sexual violence 30. Many cases of sexual violence were reported during the first half of 2006. For instance, the statistics of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), show that from 21 to 22 September over 3,000 rapes were recorded in Katanga; members of the armed forces being allegedly responsible for 70 per cent of them. 31. According to a MONUC monthly human rights report dated October 2006, a mass rape was committed during the Rutshuru crisis in January 2006 by members of the 83rd brigade (former Congolese National Army (ANC)) during the occupation of Kibirizi, a village situated 138 km to the north-west of Goma (North-Kivu). Local sources reported that some 90 women and girls had been raped. 32. In the northern province of Équateur, evidence was brought that a group of policemen acting in collusion with two civilians had been responsible for mass rape, torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, looting and forced labour inflicted on the civilian population in Bolongo-Loka, situated 530 km north-east of Mbandaka, on 5-6 August 2006. According to local sources, at least 37 women and young girls had been victims of systematic rape and sexual