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| At Least Nine Killed in DR Congo's Restive East |
| 2014-11-22 |
| [AnNahar] At least nine people were killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... 's volatile east where Ugandan rebels have recently staged bloody attacks, a top official said Friday. "Nine bodies have been sent to the morgue. The bodies were found deep inside the forest," Julien Paluku, the governor of the restive Nord-Kivu province, told AFP. "We are carrying out searches to see if there are any other bodies" in the forest, located in the north of the province between the towns of Beni and Mbau, he said. The victims were killed on Thursday. According to the Civil Society of Nord-Kivu, an NGO based in Beni, the deaths were part of new "carnage" perpetrated by Ugandan rebels. It put the toll at 50, citing a survivor but this information could not be independently verified. Rebels from Uganda's ADF (Allied Democratic Forces)have been active in the mountainous border region between the two countries since 1995 after being driven out of Uganda by President Yoweri Museveni. They have been blamed for atrocities, pillaging villages and forcing locals to fight for them, while funding themselves from the lucrative smuggling of wood. In January, the Congolese army and the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... began an offensive against the ADF, the last major group active in the region. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... the rebels have bounced back since the brutal death in August of Congolese army chief General Jean-Lucien Bahuma. |
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