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2021-02-08 Africa Subsaharan
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DR Congo militia kills at least 12 in new attack
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[AlAhram] The gruesome attack by Fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces
...they don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State. They just like killing infidels... took place overnight Friday-Saturday after a month of relative calm in the area
Fighters believed to belong to the ADF militia have killed at least 12 people 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 east, local sources said Sunday.
The gruesome attack took place overnight Friday-Saturday after a month of relative calm in the area.
"Fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces massacred farmers from the village of Mabule in their fields," Donat Kibuana, the administrator of the Beni region in North Kivu province, told AFP.
At least eight men and four women "had their throats savagely slit in their fields by these ADF terrorists," said Roger Masimango, from a local network of civil society groups.
"We're still searching, because we aren't hearing from some of the farmers," he added.
An expert in the area, who asked to remain anonymous, said 14 bodies had been found and more people were missing after the assault.
An army offensive launched in the Rwenzori mountain region had caused a "relative decline" in the number of deadly attacks since early January, administrator Kibuana said.
He added that "many villages are empty" of people who have fled the fighting.
But the ADF -- one of the most violent mostly peaceful among dozens of gangs in the eastern DRC -- is believed to have killed 21 civilians on February 5 in Rwenzori.
The UN's human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
office in the DRC said Wednesday that defence and security forces had made "significant efforts to dismantle" the militia.
Nevertheless, it said 468 deaths in the east were attributed to the group in the second half of 2020, including 108 women and 15 children.
Originally Ugandan Moslem rebels, the ADF settled in the DRC in 1995.
In recent years they have given up on attacks in neighbouring Uganda, but have carried out repeated massacres in the Beni region of the DRC, killing more than 1,000 people since October 2014. 
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