Nearly 400 extrajudicial executions were recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in November, including more than 10% committed by the Congolese security forces, the others being attributed to armed groups, said the UN in a report published on Wednesday. .
Across the country, “State agents are responsible for 39% of documented violations, including the extrajudicial executions of at least 40 people (24 men, nine women and seven children),” explains the Joint Bureau of United Nations for Human Rights (BCNUDH) in the DRC in its monthly report.
The other “61% of the violations were committed by combatants of armed groups, including the summary executions of at least 345 people (258 men, 61 women and 26 children)”, he adds.
In November, the UNJHRO “documented 801 violations and violations of human rights throughout the territory of the DRC, a sharp increase of 61% compared to October (498 violations)”.
The vast majority of these violations “were committed in conflict-affected provinces (752 violations) and resulted in the death of at least 379 civilians”.
The majority of these violations and attacks were recorded in the province of North Kivu, followed by those of Ituri, Tanganyika and South Kivu, all four in the east of the country, indicates the UN report.
The document notes that of all the parties to the conflict, taken individually, “FARDC soldiers committed the greatest number of violations in the affected provinces” in November.
The atrocities attributed to armed groups are distributed among Nyatura combatants, the Allied Democratic Forces, the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda or the Congo Development Cooperative.
AFP was unable to reach the Congolese authorities on Wednesday afternoon.
North Kivu and Ituri have been under a state of siege since May with the aim of putting an end to the activity of armed groups. This exceptional measure gave full powers to the military but has so far not made it possible to stop the atrocities by these armed groups which have destabilized the region for more than 25 years.