Order to Block Probe Reportedly Given

Congo’s new president, Laurent Kabila, has told local officials in the country’s east to do as little as possible to aid a U.N. investigation into alleged massacres of Rwandan Hutu refugees by his troops, Western and Congolese sources said. At an unusual meeting in Bukavu last weekend, Kabila warned the officials not to direct human rights investigators to any mass grave sites or potential witnesses, the sources said. The sources said Kabila and his new government are under intense pressure from Rwandan and Ugandan security officials to stymie the U.N. probe.