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2020-12-03 Africa Subsaharan
Jihadist Militants Slaughter Christians in Congo, Sources Say
[MorningstarNews] Suspected members of an murderous Moslem jihadist group slaughtered 20 Christians in villages in the northeastern part of 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...
(DRC) between Nov. 20 and Nov. 25, area sources said.

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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-linked Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) are suspected in the attacks on villages in North Kivu Province, said a local clergyman who lost his family in an assault on Mayitike village, about 20 miles northwest of Beni town, on Nov. 20.

"They tried to force some of our Christians to convert to Islam," the clergyman, whose name is withheld for security reasons, told a Morning Star News contact. "They also tried to force my wife and our four children to convert to Islam, but when they refused to convert, they shot my wife in the head while our four children were cut into pieces with a Somali sword."

The source said he was away from his village the day of the attack and thus his life was spared.

The jihadist murderous Moslems, who have been active in predominantly Christian, northeastern Congo for 20 years, accelerated attacks on civilians after the DRC army launched a large-scale offensive in October 2019. The clergyman said the rebel bully boyz intend to establish an Islamist state ruled by sharia (Islamic law).

The Morning Star News contact who interviewed the clergyman in his home said she found people in Beni town in terror on Nov. 27.

"There was a throng of Christians flooding the streets in a helpless situation, as well as radical Moslem Lions of Islam surrounding five churches," she said. "Ten girls had been raped and 15 girls kidnapped from the Anglican Church and Roman Catholic Church, with 14 Christians admitted to a hospital at death's door with injuries to their heads, and others with fractured hands and legs due to the use of guns, machete, clubs, Somali swords and axes."

Founded in the 1990s in western Uganda, the ADF is one of several murderous Moslem groups operating in northeastern Congo. The U.S. Treasury Department in December 2019 imposed sanctions on ADF leaders for mass rape, torture and killings and other human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
abuses of civilians.

Villagers including displaced persons told Morning Star News that Islamic krazed killer bully boyz in the past month have also attacked the villages of Kabumba, Mutwangano, Beni, Baeti, Kokola, Biangolo, Lisasa and Mutido. In that time more than 50 Christians who refused to recant their Christian faith were killed, especially women and kiddies, the clergyman said.

Government security forces have been dispatched to the area and have appealed to area residents to remain vigilant, he said.

Suspected ADF bully boyz killed Ngulongo Year Batsemire, archdeacon of the Anglican Diocese of Kivu-Nord, in Eringeti on Jan. 29 after he refused their demand to convert to Islam, the clergyman said.

"We therefore appeal for our brothers and sisters globally to pray for us as well assist us with financial support at this critical moment," he told Morning Star News.

In mid-November, the bodies of 29 people were found in Kavuyiri, in Virunga National Park, after an attack by armed rebels in the Beni region that reportedly killed at least 35 people. Officials blamed the ADF.

Suspected ADF bully boyz killed at least 58 people and kidnapped 17 others in two predominantly Christian villages of neighboring Ituri Province in early September, according to advocacy and aid group Barnabas Fund. In May, the jihadist group was suspected of killing at least 57 people in two Ituri villages. More than 700 people have been killed in Ituri Province since 2017, according to the UN.

The DRC’s population of 89.4 million people is nearly 92 percent Christian and only 1.7 percent Moslem, according to the Joshua Project.
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