The Allied Defense Forces, ADF, rebel group in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed at least 55 individuals in the previous two weeks.
A civic society organisation from the Lieut and Beni regions’ Mamove neighborhood. Ituri security officer Pecos Mboka revealed on Monday that the dead were from villages in the neighbouring provinces of Ituri and North Kivu.
The involvement of some members of the community with the rebels, which facilitates their criminal activity, is regrettable, according to Kinos Katuo, the president of the civil society organisation, who spoke to Anadolu.
“From July 31 to Aug. 14, 55 people have been killed by ADF rebels and their allies. In Batangi-Mbau in Beni territory, 19 people were killed in one night,” she said.
In the communities of Mbingi, Makangwa, Mabuo, Moliso, Masia, and Masenze, according to Katuo, the remaining victims were slaughtered. She pleaded with those who aid the attackers in committing their crimes to end their cooperation.
The killings were corroborated by Mboka, who added that the rebels often assault villages without soldiers but go looking for them once they learn about such attacks.
While the rebels did attack certain villages, he claimed that overall, their activity had greatly decreased in areas where the joint Congolese army and Uganda People’s Defense Force had established fortifications.
In order to remove Yoweri Museveni, the ADF was founded in Uganda in the late 1990s. However, after being defeated, they withdrew into the eastern DR Congo forests, where they now target innocent civilians.