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The Congolese authorities said on Saturday that at least 773 people were killed in the largest city in the east of the Congo in Goma, and from its vicinity this week amid fighting with the rebels supported by Rwanda who seized the city in a great escalation of the Dikadlong conflict. The progress of the rebels slowed to other areas by a weak army, some villages regained them.
The authorities confirmed 773 body and 2880 people infected in Morgez and Juma Hospitals, which led to the fact that the Congolese government, Patrick Moyaya, stated a briefing in the capital, Kinshasa, adding that the number of deaths may be higher.
“These numbers are still temporary because the rebels asked the residents to clean the streets of Goma. There must be mass graves and that the Rwandans were keen to evacuate them.”
Hundreds of Juma residents were returning to the city on Saturday after the rebels promised to restore basic services, including water and energy supplies. They cleaned the neighborhoods full of weapons and full of blood.
“I am tired and I do not know any way to go. In every corner (there) is the wage,” said Jean -Marcos, 25, who was among those who were killed in the fighting.
M23 is the most powerful more than 100 armed groups competing for control in the East, which is rich in minerals in the Congo, which carries a decisive broad deposit for many technology in the world. They are supported by about 4000 soldiers from the neighboring Rwanda, according to United Nations experts – much more than 2012, when they seized Goma for the first time and kept it for several days in a conflict led by ethnic grievances.
With the outbreak of fighting with the M23 rebels on Saturday, the Congolese Army regained the villages of Sanzi, Mujanzo and Mocawidja in the lands of South Kevo Calais, which fell on the rebels earlier this week, according to civil society officials who spoke to those associated with the associated, click on the state of non -disclosure of his identity on Fear of their safety.
The state army was weakened in Central Africa after losing hundreds of forces, and foreign mercenaries surrendered to the rebels after the fall of Goma.
The United Nations and the Relief Group said that the seizure of Guma resulted in a terrible humanitarian crisis. Goma works as a decisive human center for many of the six million people who were displaced by the conflict in the eastern Congo. The rebels said they will walk all the way to the capital of Congo Kinshasa, 1600 km to the west.
The United Nations spokesman said on Friday that the World Health Organization and its partners conducted an evaluation with the Congo government from January 26 to 30, and stated that 700 people were killed and 2,800 people in Goma and the neighboring region. Dujarric assured AP that deaths occurred during those days.
Jeremy Lawrence, a spokesman for the United Nations Human Rights Office, said on Friday that the progress of the rebels had left in the wake of the outside of the judiciary and forced civilians. “We have also documented brief executions of at least 12 people by M23” from January 26 to 28, adding that the group also occupied schools and hospitals in the province and exposed civilians to forced recruitment and forced work, “Lawrence said.
Lawrence said that the Congolese forces were also accused of sexual violence while fighting in the region, adding that the United Nations is checking the reports that Congolese forces have raped 52 women in southern Kivu.
Rose Chuenko, the rural director of the Mercy Group of Relief Corps in the Congo, said that the arrest of Gouma brought humanitarian operations to “a dead end, and cut off the vital life artery to provide aid throughout the east (Congo).”
