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She has sent a delegation to Congo to call for restraint by all sides, asking \u201csupporters, sympathizers and agents\u201d to refrain from violence.\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EBensouda also said that her office is \u201cclosely monitoring the situation on the ground\u201d in Congo, and \u201cthat any person who commits, orders, incites, encourages, or contributes in any other way to, the commission of crimes under the jurisdiction of the Court is liable to prosecution.\u201d The ICC mission to Congo follows a strong \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.icc-cpi.int\/Pages\/item.aspx?name=160923-otp-stat-drc\u0022\u003Estatement\u003C\/a\u003E of concern from Bensouda\u2019s office on September 23, 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EHuman Rights Watch research \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2016\/10\/13\/eu-impose-targeted-sanctions-against-senior-officials-democratic-republic-congo\u0022\u003Eshowed that\u003C\/a\u003E security forces used excessive force against protesters in Kinshasa in September, killing at least 56 people. The bodies of many of the victims were taken away by security forces; some were dumped into the Congo River and later found washed up on its shores. Security forces burned three opposition party headquarters, detained at least eight journalists and two human rights activists, and arrested scores of other youth, many of whom appear to have been targeted at random.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003ESome of the protesters in Kinshasa also turned violent, beating or burning to death at least three police officers and one civilian. They also burned and looted places seen as being close to or representative of President Joseph Kabila and his government. Police officers and members of youth leagues mobilized by ruling party officials and security force officers were also involved in the looting and violence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to monitoring political violence, the ICC prosecutor\u2019s office should collect information to determine whether an ICC investigation into alleged crimes in the Beni area in eastern Congo is warranted. Unidentified fighters have \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2016\/10\/07\/dr-congo-protect-civilians-beni-attack\u0022\u003Ekilled nearly 700 civilians\u003C\/a\u003E\u00a0in Beni in a series of massacres that began two years ago.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EThe ICC opened an investigation in Congo in June 2004, and has jurisdiction over serious international crimes committed there. 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