GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The defeat of the March 23 Movement in the Democratic Republic of Congo is welcomed by the U.N. human rights commissioner, her spokesman said Friday.
The rebel M23 in the DRC announced this week it agreed to end its campaign against the government. The announcement followed multilateral talks in neighboring Uganda.
"We welcome the apparently comprehensive defeat of the M23 armed group in DRC," Rupert Colville, a spokesman for U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay said in a statement Friday. "We also note the surrender yesterday in Uganda of one of the M23 leaders Col. Sultani Makenga."
Colville said Makenga was one of the top-ranking leaders of M23 suspected of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in DRC.
"He should be brought to justice along with other M23 leaders," Colville said in a statement.
M23 leader Bosco Ntaganda surrendered to the International Criminal Court early this year.
A formal peace agreement is expected to be signed with DRC leaders and M23 as early as this weekend.
M23 is comprised of former rebels integrated into the DRC who mutinied last year, complaining the government wasn't living up to its end of a 2009 truce.
