A total of 40 civilians have been massacred by ADF rebels and Chini ya Tuna militiamen in localities of Mambasa and Irumu, in Ituri province, DRC.
Reports by civil society group indicate that the militia attacked Tambo town on Monday and Tuesday.
According to the NGO-DH, Convention pour le Respect des Droits Humains (CRDH), 31 civilians were killed by the ADF and 5 others by Mai-Mai militiamen near Komanda.
According to Christophe Munyanderu, the CRDH coordinator, among the victims are two minor girls, who, before being executed, were raped.
“A total of more than 31 civilians were killed by ADF rebels, in the province of Ituri, precisely in the Tampon zone that separates Mambasa and Irumu, on the north side of the RN4 Komanda-Kisangani road,” he said.
Munyanderu added that the Chini ya Tuna movement are a tribal militia that attacks members of the Nande Yira community, living in the chiefdom of Walese-Vonkutu.
Ituri, like North Kivu, has been under a state of siege since May 2021. This special security measure was decreed by the President Félix Tshisekedi to pacify this region and restore state authority there.
However, almost two years later, the state of the siege is increasingly ineffectiveness in view of the resurgence of massacres.
Thousands of civilians have been killed, several displaced causing an unprecedented deterioration in the humanitarian situation.
