A new report by the United Nations Human Rights Council has given a grime and damning account of sitiuation in war torn Congo DR. The report indicates that rebels and government troops in the Kasai region of the African country have committed sickening atrocities including young boys been forced to rape their mothers, mass rape, while blood-drinking soldiers have feasted on the flesh of dying victims and cannibalism.
In one horrific massacre, 186 men and young lads from a single village had their heads chopped from their bodies, the report says. The team investigating the conflict in the Kasai region told the United Nations Human Rights Council last week that they suspected all sides were guilty of war crimes and offences against humanity. Their detailed 126-page report catalogued gruesome attacks committed in the conflict, which erupted in late 2016, involving the Kamuina Nsapu and Bana Mura militias and Congo’s armed forces, the FARDC. The testimony included boys being forced to rape their mothers, little girls being told witchcraft would allow them to catch bullets, and women forced to choose gang-rape or death. What happened in the Kasai simply beggars description, Congo’s Human Rights Minister Marie-Ange Mushobekwa told the Council.
The report said: “One victim told us that in May 2017 she saw a group of Kamuina Nsapu militia, some of whom sported female genitals as medals. Some witnesses recalled seeing people cutting up, cooking and eating human flesh, including penises cut from men who were still alive and from corpses, especially FARDC, and drinking human blood.” Lead investigator Bacre Waly Ndiaye told the Council that in one incident, at least 186 men and boys from a single village were beheaded by the Kamuina Nsapu.Photo Credit: Getty
