A notorious militia has killed nearly 800 civilians in eastern DR Congo since the start of last year, the UN said on Monday, adding that the attacks may amount to crimes against humanity.
The Islamist Allied Democratic Forces has committed “widespread, systematic and extremely brutal” rights abuses, according to a report by the UN’s Joint Human Rights Office in DR Congo.
The bloodshed has continued this year, the report said, with 297 people killed between February 1 and June 30. “Under international law, the human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law committed by ADF combatants could constitute, by their nature and scope, crimes against humanity and war crimes,” it said.
Last year, the Congolese army launched a campaign against the group that led to an “intensification of deadly attacks” by the ADF, the UN report said.
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