March 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least 19 people have died and a village has been practically destroyed during a new assault by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militias in the Congolese province of North Kivu, in the northeast of the country.
The assault, reports Radio Okapi, took place this same Sunday, when the guerrillas assaulted the town of Kirindera, in Beni territory.
As soon as they arrived at the place, the militias opened indiscriminate fire against the population and burned the houses, a medical center and a hotel to the ground before kidnapping an unknown number of people and looting everything in sight.
The attack has been confirmed by the former governor of North Kivu, Carly Nzanzu Kasivita, who has called for the immediate protection of the Army for all the surrounding populations in the Bashu municipality that seem to have become the new target of these militias, after another assault this week that left around 40 dead in Mukondi.
The area, where Mai Mai rebels also operate, is a recurring scene of violent actions. In the case of the ADF — a group that the United Nations accuses of killing more than 1,200 civilians in a massacre in 2021 — it is an Islamist organization of Ugandan origin that in 2019 swore allegiance to the terrorist organization State Islamic in Central Africa (ISCA), to which he would continue to be linked to this day.
