Kabila Will Let U.N. Investigate Deaths

President Laurent Kabila agreed Saturday to cooperate with a U.N. investigation into reported massacres and other human rights abuses in refugee camps in this central African nation, U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson announced after meeting with the new leader.

Richardson, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, said a U.N. advance team will arrive in the country within two weeks and a formal investigative commission will begin work in early July.

Kabila repeatedly has denied reports that forces under his command killed Rwandan refugees in eastern Congo during the country’s seven-month civil war. But he had been reluctant to cooperate with U.N. efforts to locate up to 230,000 refugees still unaccounted for in the country, formerly known as Zaire.