Selected Accounts From Victims And Witness in North Kivu

Posted to the web 21 July 2008 Kinyatembe (near Kirumbu), Masisi Territory Pierre is a 17-year-old youth from Kinyatembe village. When CNDP combatants arrived on June 28, he ran into the hill overlooking the village and saw the CNDP shoot and kill his aunt, her baby she was carrying on her back, and her 14-year-old daughter. "She was running behind the house when the CNDP came," Pierre told Human Rights Watch researchers. "She wasn't that fast, so they stopped her and killed her and the kids. Another person was chopped to death by machete." After looting and burning 20 houses in Kinyamatembe, the CNDP left and PARECO came back. Many of the villagers fled; those who stayed were too scared to sleep in their village and now spend their nights hiding in the nearby forest. Kinyatembe (near Kirumbu), Masisi Territory Pierre is a... [read full story]