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Displaced people are seen in a file photo along a road near Goma, Congo. (Credit: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters via CNS.)
A leading Catholic aid agency has condemned what it calls “cyclical violence and continuing human rights abuses targeting civilian populations in North Kivu and Ituri Provinces” of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A leading Catholic aid agency has condemned what it calls “cyclical violence and continuing human rights abuses targeting civilian populations in North Kivu and Ituri Provinces” of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Armed groups have been active in the area for decades, attacking civilians and battling each other and government forces for control of the region’s mineral resources.
Congolese bishop: Stop the chain of massacres
15 women and children were reported killed with machetes by Allied Democratic Forces fighters in a camp Catholic News Service Updated: January 16, 2021 06:44 AM GMT
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Bishop Melchisedec Sikuli Paluku of DR Congo s Butembo-Beni Diocese. (Photo: Radio Moto)
A Congolese bishop has urged international action to stem massacres in his diocese and accused the country s government and media of indifference to current sufferings. Only last year, at least a thousand people were killed here this has been going on for a decade, and the situation has deteriorated into a chain of massacres, said Bishop Melchisedech Sikuli Paluku of Butembo-Beni in Congo s North Kivu province.