12 March 2019 1 Min Read
UN says killings in Congo ethnic clashes may be crimes against humanity
Several hundred displaced people have found refuge on the islets of the river, according to humanitarian actors on the ground, as they fled the ethnically motivated mass killings across the river in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Between December 16 and 17, 2018, at least 535 people were killed in Yumbi Territory, according to the United Nations Joint Office for Human Rights.
Image: ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP
Image: ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP
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The deaths of at least 535 men, women and children in fighting between two communities in Democratic Republic of Congo in December may amount to crimes against humanity, a The UN human rights office said on Tuesday.
The UN said in January that there were credible reports of at least 890 deaths in the clashes over three days in four villages in Yumbi territory in the west of the country.
It sent a special investigative mission that found intercommunal attacks had been planned and carried out.