UN Security Council
2017

and stresses the importance to this end of both regional cooperation and cooperation with the ICC; 9. Calls upon the Congolese authorities to ensure the prosecution of those responsible for the crimes involving grave human rights violations and abuses committed in the context of the 28 November 2011 elections and the current electoral process, in particular in January 2015, on 19, 20 and 21 September and 19 December 2016; 10. Condemns the violence witnessed in the Kasaï region over recent months, expresses grave concern at serious violations of international humanitarian law committed by local militia in that region, including those involving attacks on DRC security forces and symbols of State authority, recruitment and use of children in violation of applicable international law, and further expresses serious concerns at the recent reports of mass graves and of killings of civilians by members of the security forces of the DRC, all of which might constitute war crimes under international law, welcomes the announcement by the Government of the DRC that they will conduct investigations into violations of international humanitarian law