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More than 20 DR Congo political party activists killed

March 30, 2023 03:45 AM


More than 20 political activists have been killed in the city of Lubumbashi in the southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, their party and a civil group said Wednesday, accusing unknown assailants in military fatigues.

"Some commandos... killed more than 25 people, some by bullets and others by drowning," said Bertin Tchoz, lead of a peace and security civil organisation in Haut-Katanga district, of which Lubumbashi is the capital,

The victims were members of the National Union of Congolese Federalists (UNAFEC).

The party's national president Jean Umba Lungange said the attack happened last Friday when "people in military uniforms, guided by a civilian, found our young people at the place where they regularly hold their meetings and started shooting".

"Some of them were shot and others drowned in the Naviundu River as they fled," he told the party's executive in the presence of journalists.

"We are left with 21 bodies at the moment," he said, adding that there were also "missing persons".

An army spokesman in the region told AFP that he was not aware of this event, especially since "this political party did not refer the matter to the army".

UNAFEC, a member of the "Sacred Union of the Nation" platform set up by President Felix Tshisekedi, has been riven by infighting since its founder Gabriel Kyungu wa Kumwanza died in 2021.

A surge in attacks in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has claimed more than 700 lives at the hands of militia fighters since December, the United Nations said Monday.

Rebel militias have plagued the eastern DRC for decades, many of them a legacy of regional wars that flared during the 1990s and early 2000s.



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