In one case, a child was thrown into a septic tank, and in another, a woman who was raped after her child was decapitated and her husband killed.
The UN Human Rights office says 535 people in Congo were shot, butchered and burnt to death during the three days of violence between local communities in the west of the country in December.
The number was lower than the 890 victims that the UN office initially estimated in January, but UN rights investigators said in a report on Tuesday that there are likely additional people whose dead bodies were dumped in the Congo River. Existing tensions between the Banunu and Batende communities exploded amid a dispute over the burial site of a Banunu traditional chief.During the attacks, Batende villagers used hunting rifles, machetes, bows and arrows, and gasoline to target fleeing Banunu people, the team of UN investigators reported after having visited the area.
They heard reports of a two-year-old child who was thrown into a septic tank, and a woman who was raped after her three-year-old child was decapitated and her husband was killed.“In some cases, the attackers mutilated the bodies of their victims, cutting off heads, limbs and genitals,’’ the UN Human Rights Office said.
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