The ADF militants, who are spreading terror in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have tightened their grip on civilians by targeting for the first time in a year the city of Beni during two new massacres that have killed at least ten people. Present on the ground, in search of the victims, sources speak that, of them at least 21 dead in these two simultaneous attacks Tuesday evening on Beni-city near Oïcha, 30 km further north.
In total, at least 60 people were massacred, often with knives, in the Beni region (North Kivu) since the announcement in late October-early November of military operations of the Congolese army against the bases of Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). After months of calm, these repeated killings appear as reprisals by the ADF to break the support of civilians to the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC), according to observers.
Tuesday night, at least seven people were killed in the town of Beni, attacked for the first time by the ADF since October 2018, according to the army quoted by the United Nations radio Okapi and civil society. A dozen civilians also reportedly kidnapped, according to sources, says the ouest-france.fr/.
