2023-06-17 07:28:04
At least 15 civilians have died following a new attack by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) against a village in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Among the fatalities are five women and a one-year-old baby; the militia has kidnapped three children; In addition, they have burned about ten housesas published this Friday by the radio station Radio Okapi.
“Their operational capacity has decreased significantly but they still have the complicity of the majority of the Congolese. And so we betray all the movements of the military. Everything that happens is in complicity with the Congolese,” said the administrator of the Irumu territory. (Ituri), Colonel Siro Simba.
Last week died another 15 people due to an attack by the ADF, this time in the province of North Kivu, and a few days before another assault by the same militia left some 20 dead in Ituri.
The ADF, a Ugandan group created in the 1990s that was especially active in the eastern DRC and accused of killing hundreds of civilians in this part of the country, suffered a split in 2019 after its leader swore allegiance to the jihadist group. Islamic State in Central Africa (ISCA), under whose banner it has operated ever since. The United Nations attributes more than 1,200 murders of civilians to them in 2021 alone.
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