The Congo’s army tries to reject the rebels supported by Rwanda in the fighting that killed about 700 people – National

The weakened Congoly army responded against the rebels supported by Rwanda, which the UN said they quickly moved to the province of southern Kiva after seizing the largest city in the region and the international airport. The crisis, which the UN said was killed by 700 people this week, puts it danger of another regional airport.

While the fighting on Saturday ran with the M23 rebels, the Congenian army again overwhelmed the villages of Sanzi, Muganzo and Mukwid in the territory of Kalehe southern Kivu, who fell on rebels earlier this week, according to two civil society officials. who spoke with Associated Presso provided 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.

UN Peace Boss Jean-Pierre Lacroix said that the forces of M23 and Ruandan were about 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of the Bukavu southern Kivua capital, covering almost the same distance in the previous two days since they began to advance along Lake Kiva on the border with Rwanda. Lacroix said the rebels “seem to be moving quite quickly,” and capturing the airport a few kilometers (miles) “would be another really significant step.”

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.

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 6 million people displaced by conflict in Eastern Congo. The rebels said they would march all the way to the capital of Kons Kinshas, ​​1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) in the west.

UN spokesman Stephana Dujarric also said on Friday that the World Health Organization and his partners had an estimate with the Government of Kong 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 throughout the east (Congo),” said Rose Tchwenko, the state director for Mercy Corps Aid Group in Congo.

“The escalation of violence towards Bukavu causes fear of even greater displacement, while the breakup of a humanitarian approach leaves the entire community without support,” she said.

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