“Days of mass burial” has recently been living in the city of Goma in its People’s Republic, which has been broken for at least three years by, as described the situation of its international committee. Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in the country, estimates.
“This percentage will probably increase,” Vivian Van de Per, Deputy Head of the UN Peace Power, said in the New York Times, while more than 700,000 people have been displaced.
Families and workers in humanitarian organizations are struggling to bury the dead, whose bodies have been stored in excessive dead cemeteries across the city of two million. For days, workers with excavation machines are opening large trenches for mass burials.
A previous United Nations report spoke of 900 dead.
The guerrilla M23 and the ally of Rwanda
The M23, a group of guerrillas who, according to the UN, is funded by Rwanda, began its advance to Goma on January 26 and fully occupied the city in four days. Although most battles have stopped, Goma’s fall has raised fears of a wider war between Congo, Rwanda and their respective allies.
The anti -government armed movement and the Rwandan army launched a new attack on Eastern Congo, where they already conquered Goma, the city of one million inhabitants and so many other displaced, after many days of fierce battles.
After his fighters occupied the capital of the province of North Kivo last week, the M23 declared a unilaterally humanitarian ceasefire this week, which was supposed to have entered into force on Tuesday. The rebels added that they had “no intention of taking control of Boukavos or other communities”.
However, at dawn on Wednesday, M23 and Rwandan soldiers began fierce battles with the Armed Forces of LD Congo in the neighboring province of southern Kivos. According to sources from the French Agency in the Security Forces and in organizations and organizations that do humanitarian work, they occupied the city of Niabibu, where mines and mines are located, 100 kilometers from Boukavos and 70 kilometers from the provincial airport.
A mass burial of some 2,000 bodies took place in Goma, DR Congo, in the wake of the M23 rebels’ capture of the regional capital last week. At least 2,900 people were killed and almost 3,000 injured in the days of fighting leading up to Goma’s capture, according to the UN.
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“This is the proof that the unilateral ceasefire, which was declared, was, as usual, except fraud,” commented a spokesman for the Government of the Government of LD Congo Patrick Mujaya at the French Agency.
In the more than three years of the war, the country’s armed forces (EDLD) – who have a bad reputation, are allegedly lacking in education and plagued by corruption – have not ceased to retreat.
Some six ceasefire deals and truce were closed, but they were never adhered to.
They had already broken out last week hostilities in southern Kivos, but there was a relative calm in recent days. According to sources in the army and in the area, the parties took advantage of this respite to strengthen their strengths with vibrant potential and material.
Yesterday in Boukavo, a city of one million inhabitants, a crowd of feverish state, with candles in their hands, gathered to pray for peace.
The International Community, the UN, the ICT and the neighboring countries
The international community and countries that have taken on a mediating role, such as Angola and Kenya, are trying to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis as fears of regional ignition are expressed.
According to diplomatic sources, the advance of the M23 and the Rwandan army is not excluded from weakening, if not destabilizing the government of President Felix Chiskendi, to the power of the LD Congo since 2019, although he secured a second term in December 20.
Kinshasa (the capital of the Congo) calls on the international community to take action against Kigali (Rwanda capital), in particular the imposition of sanctions. “We see many statements, but we do not see actions,” said Congolese Foreign Minister Teen Kagikuaba Wagner without hiding her dissatisfaction, after a meeting in Brussels with her counterpart Maxim Prevo.
Felix Tsinekei and Rwanda President Paul Kangami are expected to be present on Saturday at an extraordinary joint meeting of the East African (EAC) community (EAC) and the Meridian African Development Community (KAMA).
Kagami said yesterday, after a conversation with European Council President Antonio Costa, that there was a need to “deplete” in the eastern Congo Congo. “We discussed the situation in the LD Congo and agreed to the need for effective declining and resolving the conflict that will prioritize political dialogue and guarantee constant peace,” he said.
The UN Human Rights Council is also expected to meet extraordinary tomorrow Friday, at a request by Kinshasa to discuss the crisis. The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICT), who conducts investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity, stressed yesterday that he was “closely monitoring” the situation in the LD Congo.
While diplomatic efforts continue, countries in the region say they are now reinforcing their defenses.
The Army in Uganda said last week that it was “in defense” to prevent various armed organizations that, according to him, act with the Eastern Congo Congo to “exploit the situation”.
Burundi, for his part, accused Rwanda of being “preparing” and said he had no intention of “letting it”.
In the area, which is broken by various conflicts for decades, Kinshas accuses Kigali of plundering her natural resources. The Rwanda government denies it and oppose it that it wants to eliminate armed organizations that threaten its safety permanently, especially the Democratic forces of Rwandan liberation (FDLR), which once founded officials belonging to the Hutu tribe and allegedly In the genocide of Tutsi.
