Some members of a group of rebels led by Laurent Nkunda. His troops were accused of carrying out the killings in Kiwanja. Michael Kamber for The New York TimesFrom New York Times:
KIWANJA, Congo — At last the bullets had stopped, and François Kambere Siviri made a dash for the door. After hiding all night from firefights between rebels and a government-allied militia over this small but strategic town, he was desperate to get to the latrine a few feet away.
“Pow, pow, pow,” said his widowed mother, Ludia Kavira Nzuva, recounting how the rebels killed her 25-year-old son just outside her front door. As they abandoned his bloodied corpse, she said, one turned to her and declared, “Voilà, here is your gift.”
In little more than 24 hours, at least 150 people would be dead, most of them young men, summarily executed by the rebels last month as they tightened their grip over parts of eastern Congo, according to witnesses and human-rights investigators.
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My Comment: This is a war crime. This also exemplifies the failure of the UN to protect civilians, as well as being unable to stop the continuous killing in the Congo.
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