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American UN Investigator Killed in Democratic Republic of Congo

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Michael Sharp and Sweden’s Zaida Catalan were tracking rights violations.

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Two UN experts and their interpreter have been found dead in the Democratic Republic of Congo after the group went missing this month. Michael Sharp, a U.S. citizen, Zaida Catalan, a Swedish national, and their Congolese interpreter, Betu Tshintela, were all killed, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement. Catalan’s body was found decapitated. Catalan and Sharp were in the region investigating large-scale human-rights violations, when the DRC announced March 13 that they had “fallen into the hands of unidentified negative forces.”

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