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2014-11-01 Africa Subsaharan

Congo crowd kills man, eats him after militant massacres

[AF.REUTERS] A crowd stoned to death a young man in northeast Congo on Friday before burning and eating his corpse, witnesses said, in apparent revenge for a series of attacks by Ugandan rebels.
Now that's a tough neighborhood.
The incident in the town of Beni followed a number of overnight raids in the area blamed on the Islamist group ADF-NALU, who are thought to have massacred more than 100 people this month, using hatchets and machetes to kill their victims.
Now the Islam infection is spreading to the Congo.
Witnesses said the man, who has not been identified, aroused suspicion on a bus when passengers discovered he could not speak the local Swahili language and that he was carrying a machete.
"Hey there, stranger! Yeah, you, the guy with the machete!... Y'ain't from around here, air you?"
Speaking from the town of Beni, Congo's President Joseph Kabila said the ADF-NALU militants would face the same fate as the rebel movement M23, which was defeated by a U.N.-backed government offensive last year.
Wikipedia sez "The ADF was formed by puritanical Muslim Ugandans of the Tabliq sect who merged with the remnants of another rebel group, the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda. The main figure of the group was Jamil Mukulu, a former Catholic. The members were largely from central Uganda." Uganda claims the group is affiliated with al-Shabaab in Somalia.
"There is no question of negotiation with the terrorists," Kabila said in a speech at a local hotel. "They will be defeated as was the case with the M23. And it will be very soon."

ADF-NALU is an alliance of groups opposed to the Ugandan government that has operated from bases in neighbouring Congo since the mid-2000s, undermining Kinshasa's grip on the area.
I'm guessing that the "Tabliq sect" stems from Tabligi Jamaat or similarly named itinerant preachers (and al-Qaeda recruiters).
The movement was blamed for the deaths of 14 people, killed early on Thursday in the village of Kampi ya Chui, bringing the total death toll this month to at least 107, said Teddy Kataliko, president of the Civil Society of Beni.
Beni seems to be their favored stomping grounds.
Tensions ran high in the town on Friday morning with around 100 demonstrators blocking the road from the airport into town, throwing stones and waving machetes to demand greater government protection against the rebels.

Local government officials could not immediately be reached for comment. Earlier in the week, the government sought to downplay the threat posed by the group, which it had previously said was defeated in an operation earlier this year.
Swarming in like Boko Haram and killing a hundred people with machetes and hatchets doesn't sound "defeated."

Posted by Fred 2014-11-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Waste not, want not.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-11-01 05:15|| 2014-11-01 05:15|| Front Page Top

#2 : ) wicked!

Posted by Incredulous 2014-11-01 07:00|| 2014-11-01 07:00|| Front Page Top

#3 "well that escalated quickly"

Posted by Frank G 2014-11-01 07:51|| 2014-11-01 07:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Bush meat?

Posted by AlanC 2014-11-01 08:02|| 2014-11-01 08:02|| Front Page Top

#5 That ain't kosher.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-11-01 09:08|| 2014-11-01 09:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Recidivism problem solved.

Posted by gorb 2014-11-01 10:17|| 2014-11-01 10:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Moochelle wouldn't approve of this school lunch menu.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-11-01 10:33|| 2014-11-01 10:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Now if we could just convince the gummit to hire Kampi ya Chui contract guards for GITMO. Seems like a no brainer.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-01 10:35|| 2014-11-01 10:35|| Front Page Top

#9 "Mike Hoare to the white courtesy phone..."

Posted by Pappy 2014-11-01 11:06|| 2014-11-01 11:06|| Front Page Top

#10 This just had to be said

Posted by Glinesh Grumble1896 2014-11-01 11:13|| 2014-11-01 11:13|| Front Page Top

#11 I guess they have had enough of that muslim bullshit and now they know not to mess with their town.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-11-01 12:46|| 2014-11-01 12:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Hope they got the right guy and not some innocent bystander

Posted by Anon1 2014-11-01 12:55|| 2014-11-01 12:55|| Front Page Top

#13 Eating people is one way to get a deadly virus. Don't these people have any [health] conscious?

Posted by One Bandersnatch 2014-11-01 15:11|| 2014-11-01 15:11|| Front Page Top

#14 Not eating people gets them machete swinging al-shaboob wannabes.

I'd at least. Least. Ask for some hot sauce, else be uncivilized.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-11-01 16:17|| 2014-11-01 16:17|| Front Page Top

#15 Dear Muslims, this here is no hooey:
Steer well clear of Kampo-ya-Chui!
They're all on the lookout
For swell Muslim cookout --
They smell it, the place goes kablooey.

These Christians aren't keen on conversion
By blade-happy "nomadic herdsmen."
To banish these vermin,
Per last Sunday's sermon,
They'll turn knife and fork on the swordsmen.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-11-01 17:40|| 2014-11-01 17:40|| Front Page Top

#16 I guess they have had enough of that Muslim bullshit and now they know not to mess with their town.

It *does* make quite a statement, doesn't it?

Posted by Secret Master 2014-11-01 18:18|| 2014-11-01 18:18|| Front Page Top

#17 I'm with comment #13. Mad cow, Ebola, muzzie bull disease. Crazy thing to do. Stick to machetes and PPE.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-11-01 20:59|| 2014-11-01 20:59|| Front Page Top

#18 ya ever try and clean a muzzie? Jeez

Posted by Frank G 2014-11-01 21:02|| 2014-11-01 21:02|| Front Page Top

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