Copper, cobalt, gold, diamonds: several militias are fighting for valuable mineral resources in the region around Beni. They also kill civilians time and time again.
At least 37 civilians have been killed in a rebel attack in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Several people were kidnapped, the military and a civil society organization confirmed.
“We picked up 27 bodies on Saturday and just 10 more,” said the president of the regional organization, Kinos Katuho, of the German Press Agency in the evening. The victims were killed in their homes in the village of Beu-Manyama, including with machetes. He blamed the Islamist militia ADF for the attack.
In response to the attack, the military killed seven ADF fighters, a Congolese army spokesman said in the Beni area.
The rebels regularly carry out bloody attacks in the east of the country. The US government has classified the ADF, an offshoot of the Islamic State (IS) militia, as a global terrorist organization. Several militias are active in the region around Beni, most of which are concerned with controlling valuable mineral resources such as copper, cobalt, gold and diamonds.
Source: Stern
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