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2019-12-07 Africa Subsaharan

DR Congo: Several hacked to death in suspected rebel attacks

[Aljazeera] At least 17 people have been hacked to death in two rebel attacks in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a local official has said.

On Thursday afternoon, the rebels killed 14 people in Mantumbi, a village 17 kilometres (11 miles) west of the city of Oicha, said Donat Kibwana, administrator of the Beni territory.

Earlier that day, they had killed two and beheaded a third in Kolokoko, a suburb of Oicha, he told the Reuters News Agency.

"Everybody has fled the village [Mantumbi]. There are only soldiers here, who are in the process of helping to remove the bodies of the people who were all killed with knives," he said
Life Magazine cover, 12 February 1965.
The violence has been blamed on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group which officials say is responsible for a string of massacres since the start of November.

ISIS has been claiming their attacks recently, but the ADF does not seem to have made a public proclamation of fealty to them or anyone else.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-07 08:16|| || Front Page|| [25 views ] Top

#1 Nothing is very likely to change in the next 60 years either.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-07 08:23|| 2019-12-07 08:23|| Front Page Top

#2 they had killed two and beheaded a third

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-07 15:48|| 2019-12-07 15:48|| Front Page Top

#3 For a total of three dead... if my math holds.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-07 15:54|| 2019-12-07 15:54|| Front Page Top

#4 It was not being dead that one dreaded,
But life after being beheaded:
"A star at the bar,
You can't drive your own car,
And you never know who you just bedded."

Posted by Victor Emmanuel Whinert8537 2019-12-07 19:11|| 2019-12-07 19:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Zenobia F, I sit in awe at your mind’s gymnastics. I suspect that by this point limericks and occasionally other poetic forms fall from your lips as either pearls & precious gems or frogs & toads — depending on the fairy tale curse — every time you read Rantburg, and often enough elsewhere as well.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-07 19:24|| 2019-12-07 19:24|| Front Page Top

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