UN assistant secretary general for Peacekeeping Atul Khare told the UN Security Council that at least 267 more rapes occurred in another area of the country's east, in addition to 242 rapes earlier reported in and around Luvungi, a village of about 2 200 people located about 30km from a UN peacekeepers' camp.

Rape as a weapon of war has become shockingly commonplace in the eastern part of the DRC, where the government army and UN peacekeepers have failed to defeat the few thousands rebels. Luvungi is a farming centre on the main road between Goma, the eastern provincial capital, and the major mining town of Walikale.

Khare told reporters after the council session that over 15 000 rapes were reported in the DRC in both 2008 and 2009.

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