Hundreds of girls raped and burnt alive after Goma jail raid within the Congo | EUROtoday
Hundreds of Congolese ladies had been raped and burnt alive after Rwandan-backed militants raided a jail.
The feminine inmates had been attacked of their wing inside Goma’s Munzenze jail throughout a mass jailbreak, UN peacekeeping chief Vivian van de Perre stated.
The M23 rebels, which refers back to the 23 March 2009 accord that ended a earlier Tutsi-led revolt in japanese Congo, took up arms in opposition to the Congolese authorities final week.
Tens of hundreds of residents in japanese Congo’s largest metropolis, Goma, fled their properties after the rebels made swift beneficial properties within the North Kivu province bordering Rwanda.
As a number of thousand males managed to flee from the jail in the course of the preventing, the world reserved for girls was set on fireplace, Ms van de Perre stated.

“There was a major prison breakout of 4,000 escaped prisoners. A few hundred women were also in that prison.
“They were all raped and then they set fire to the women’s wing. They all died afterwards,” Ms van de Perre instructed The Guardian.
This week the UN workplace of the excessive commissioner for human rights (OHCHR) warned that sexual violence was getting used as a weapon of conflict by rival armed teams in Goma.
The metropolis, dwelling to multiple million individuals, is below the full management of M23 forces. But in an unexpected improvement late on Monday, the militia introduced a unilateral “ceasefire”.
Until then, fears had been mounting that Rwanda was decided to take extra territory from its huge neighbour, with M23 forces steadily heading south in the direction of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province 120 miles (190km) from Goma.

Responding to information of the sudden ceasefire. Van de Perre stated: “I hope it stays that way because they [M23] were already moving in the direction of Bukavu with reinforcements and heavy weaponry, which can be seen passing [along] the streets in Goma.
“If they retreat, that’s good news. Otherwise, we’ll have a new clash with potentially thousands of additional deaths.”
The rebels briefly took over Goma in 2012 and resurfaced in late 2021, with rising assist from Rwanda, in response to Congo’s authorities and United Nations consultants. Rwanda has denied such assist.
Congolese authorities officers have stated the nation is “in a war situation” and accused Rwanda of committing “a frontal aggression [and] a declaration of war”.
Analysts have warned the newest escalation of hostilities might additional destabilise the area, which is already experiencing one of many world’s largest humanitarian crises with greater than six million individuals displaced.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/women-raped-killed-drc-congo-goma-m23-b2692710.html