“People had gone to their fields to prepare for New Year's Eve, gunmen picked them up one by one. The death toll is at least thirty, “ said Bravo Mohindo Vukulu, the president of the network of civil society organizations in Tingwe, the site of the massacre located 8 km from Eringeti-centre.
Congolese officials blamed the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) fighters for the attack.
The Allied Democratic Forces launched an insurgency against the governments of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1995.
The insurgency left at least 1,217 people dead and 102 injured in 2020, according to the local sources.
The ADF is known to currently control a number of hidden camps which are home to about 2,000 people; in these camps, the ADF operates as proto-state with “an internal security service, a prison, health clinics, and an orphanage” as well as schools for boys and girls. (ILKHA)