25/11/2014 09:45
100 civilians massacred near Congo-Uganda border
Islamic militants of the Allied Democratic Forces, originating from Uganda and aligned with the Al-Shabaab terrorist organization, have allegedly massacred about 100 civilians in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo near the Ugandan border, a region where civilian killings and clashes with the Congolese army are common, Sputnik reported.
Roughly 100 civilians had been massacred last week in the volatile region of North Kivu of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Islamic militants of Uganda’s Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) have been active recently. The mass slaughter occurred in the vicinity of the town of Beni, where ADF has been undertaking gory attacks on the local population, having claimed more than 200 lives since October.
“I have a figure of 95 bodies buried in a common grave," as well as “nine others that were shown to authorities in a morgue," opposition MP Juma Balikwisha said as quoted by AFP.
The Parliament majority is more cautious in their estimates. “We still don’t have a definitive toll. It lies between 70 and 100 people killed," said Albert Baliesima, an MP for the parliamentary majority supporting President Joseph Kabila.