UN warns escalation in the war in Congo with rebels M23 by bringing “abstract of execution” and gang rape

Geneva – On Friday, the United Nations expressed alarm for angry violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, while the armed group M23 pushed deeper into the ground, warning of the abstract of execution and widespread rapes. The groups of capturing most Goma, the capital of North Kivo Province, was a dramatic escalation in the region earlier in the week, which recorded decades of conflicts involved in several armed groups.

The UN said on Thursday that he was “deeply worried” by the “credible reports” that the M23 rebels supported in Rwandan are progressing south from Gom to the Bukavu-Mountain City of the neighboring Province of South Kiv.

The UN spokesman for the rights of Jeremy Laurence said that from the beginning of the bomb crisis they had a structure of at least two places that were internally displaced people (IRP), “causing civilian victims.”

“We also documented the abstract of execution at least 12 people of M23 between January 26 and January 28,” Geneva told reporters.

In areas under the control of the M23 in southern Kivu, such as Movo, he said that the group “occupied schools and hospitals, forced disputes from the camp and subjected to the civilian population forced recruitment and forced labor.”

The Office of the Rights, he said, documented “cases of sexual violence associated with conflict by the army and fighters of the Allied Wazalend in the territory of Kalehe.”

“We are checking the reports that 52 women raped Congol’s troops in southern Kivu, including alleged band rape reports,” he said.

Separately, he pointed to the reports of the Officer DRC, who pointed out that at least 165 women were raped by male prisoners when more than 4,000 prisoners from the prison of Goma Museunza broke out on January 27, because the M23 began the attack on the city.

“Sexual violence related to the conflict for decades has been a terrible feature of armed conflict in the Eastern DrC,” Laurence said.

The UN chief Volker Turk “is particularly concerned that this latest escalation risks the deepening of the risk of sexual violence related to the conflict,” he added.

Laurence warned that “a wide spread of weapons in the crowd” “exacerbation” of these risks.

He also called for investigations to “bring the perpetrators to justice” and provide responsibility.

Ruth Maclean, head of the Western Africa Office for the New York Times, said CBS News this week that increasing the violence in Gomi is particularly worrying because, for months, people from the surrounding village have been poured into the city by looking for a break from fighting. Many of the displaced people, Maclean said, lived outdoors, leaving them with increased risk.

The UN, many Western governments and DRC accuse the government of Rwanda of supporting the M23 in an effort to control and use their much higher mineral resources of the Eastern neighbor, in the escalation of the crisis that has been playing for many years on several international borders.