BEN-(MaraviPost)-Ten people were killed on late Monday, February 17, 2020 in an attack in the eastern DR Congo region of Beni.
A local official and a military officer confirmed the troll.
In a statement, the military officer disclosed that the victims were eight civilians, an intelligence agent and a soldier.
As reported by Pulse, Manzahalo village , local leader John Kambale where the attack occurred said a notorious militia killed hundreds since October and hundreds of people were seen fleeing the area by foot, motorcycle and truck on Tuesday after the attack.
According to local military officer, Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) is to be blamed for the attack.
The ADF is one of numerous militias which plague the area a legacy of two wars that dragged the Democratic Republic of Congo’s neighbours into a regional conflict.
The Islamist-rooted rebel group began in Uganda and was a great opponent of President Yoweri Museveni.
It originally operated in Uganda but fell back to North Kivu, DR Congo’s border province with Uganda, during the Congo Wars of the 1990s.
The militia appears to have halted raids inside Uganda and its recruits today are of various nationalities.
Already blamed for hundreds of civilian deaths in Beni since 2014, the group embarked on a series of massacres after the army launched a crackdown in October.
The Congolese army says it has taken the ADF’s headquarters and that five out of the group’s six senior commanders have been killed.
The UN peacekeeping mission MONUSCO last Wednesday reported that Congolese troops had captured 40 ADF men.
Despite these reported successes, the group have been continuing at a frenzied rate in Beni and total of 393 people have died since the end of October, many of them hacked to death.
