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UN peacekeepers in Democratic Republic of Congo are to stop working with some army units after the killing of 62 civilians, a top UN official says. UN peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy said he had information that the army had "clearly targeted" the civilians. Human rights activists have accused the army of killing ethnic Hutus in eastern DR Congo during its operations against the Rwandan Hutu FDLR rebels. The UN has been helping the army tackle the rebels since January. Last month a UN investigator said the army had massacred refugees and gang-raped women at the Shalio camp in North Kivu on 27 April. "We have decided that [DR Congo's peacekeeping mission] Monuc will immediately suspend its logistical and operational support to the army units implicated in these killings," Mr Le Roy told UN-backed Radio Okapi.