Congo says 773 was killed in last week of fighting between the hull, the rebels in the crowd
At least 773 people were killed in the largest city of Gom in Eastern Congo and its vicinity this week in the midst of fighting with rebels supported in Rwanda who captured the city in the great escalation of Decadelong Conflict, Congolian authorities said on Saturday. The progress of the rebels to other areas was slowed by a weakened army that took out some villages from them.
Authorities have confirmed that 773 bodies and 2,880 injured persons in Gomi Morgue and hospitals, a spokesman for the Patrick Muyaya Congonic Government said at the briefing in the Kinshas capital, adding that the number of deaths could be higher.
“These figures remain temporary because the rebels have asked the population to clear the Goma street. There should be mass graves, and the Rwandans made sure to evacuate their own,” said Muyaya.
Hundreds of Goma residents returned to the city on Saturday after the rebels promised to return basic services, including water and power. They cleaned the neighborhood full of debris from the weapon and filled with the smell of blood.
“I’m tired and I don’t know which way to go. On every corner [there] Sorry, “said Jean Marcus, 25, whose cousin was among those who were killed in the fight.
The M23 is the most powerful of more than 100 armed groups that are controlled by the east -rich Mineral Congo, which holds huge deposits critical for most of the world technology. They were supported by about 4,000 soldiers from neighboring Rwanda, according to the UN experts – far more than in 2012, when they first captured Goma and held it for days in conflict with ethnic complaints.
While fighting on Saturday with the M23 rebels, the Congol army was renewed by the villages of Sanzi, Muganzo and Mukwid in the territory of Kalehe in southern Kiva, who fell on rebels earlier this week, according to two civil society officials who spoke connected with a connected by the condition of anonymity for fear of their safety.
The Central Africa army weakened after losing hundreds of trunk and foreign mercenaries surrendered to the rebels after the fall of Goma.
The subtraction of Goma has resulted in a serious humanitarian crisis, UN -Osovi said and a help group. Goma serves as a humanitarian center critical for many of the six million people displaced in the Eastern Congo. The rebels said they would march all the way to the capital of Kons Kinshas, 1,600 kilometers in the west.
UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric also said on Friday that the World Health Organization and his partners had an assessment with the Congo Government between January 26 and January 30, and reported that 700 people had been killed and 2,800 injured in the crowd and environment. Dujarric AP -u confirmed that death happened in those days.
The rebel progress left in the awakening of out -of -court killings and forced civilian recruitment, the UN spokesman for human rights by Jeremy Laurence said on Friday. “We also documented the abstract of execution at least 12 people of M23” from January 26 to 28, Laurence said, adding that the group also occupied schools and hospitals in the province and civilians underwent forced recruitment and forced work.
Congoic forces have also been charged with sexual violence as a fight against anger in the region, Laurence said, adding that the UN checks reports that Congole Troops raped 52 women in southern Kivu.
Goma’s arrest has led humanitarian operations to “stopping, interrupting the vital life line to provide assistance on the Eastern [Congo]”said Rose Tchwenko, a country director to help the Mercy Corps Assistance Group in Congo.
