This week, at least 773 people were killed in the largest city of Goma in the eastern Congo and its surroundings among the fight against rebellions supported by Rwandy, who captured the city in a serious escalation of the decadellong conflict, they gave the Congish authorities on Saturday. The promotion of the rebels to other areas was slowed down by a weakened army, which regained some villages from them.
The authorities confirmed 773 organs and 2880 wounded people in Morgues and Hospitals Goma, spokesman for the Congish government Patrick Muyaya told about the capital Kinshasa, adding that the number of fatalities may be higher.
“These numbers remain temporary because the rebels asked the population to clean Goma streets. There should be mass graves, and the Rwandans took care of the evacuation of them, “said Muyaya.
Hundreds of residents of Goma returned to the city on Saturday after the rebels promised to restore basic services, including water and power supply. They cleaned the districts littered with rubble of weapons and filled with stink.
“I'm tired and I don't know which way. There is a mourner on every corner (there), “said 25 -year -old Jean Marcus, whose relatives were among those killed in battle.
M23 is the strongest of over 100 armed groups fighting for control on the rich in the Mineral Minerals of the East, which has huge crucial deposits for most world technology. According to UN experts, they are supported by about 4,000 soldiers from the neighboring Rwanda – much more than in 2012, when they first captured Goma and kept him for many days in conflict with ethnic complaints.
When the fights were raging with the M23 rebels on Saturday, the Congish Army regained the villages of Sanzi, Muguanzo and Mukwidja on the territory of Kalehe South Kivu, which fell on the rebels at the beginning of this week, according to two civil society officials who talked to Associated, pressing anonymity due to anonymity due to anonymous fear of their safety.
The army of the Central African nation was weakened after hundreds of soldiers lost and foreign mercenaries surrendered to the rebels after the fall of Goma.
Goma updoed the tragic humanitarian crisis, gave the UN and AID group. Goma serves as a humanitarian center critical of many of the six million people displaced by conflict in the eastern Congo. The rebels said they were marching to the capital of Congo Kinshasa, 1600 kilometers in the west.
UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric also said on Friday that the World Health Organization and its partners carried out a assessment with the Congo government on January 26-30, and announced that 700 people were killed and 2,800 wounded in Goma and its surroundings. Dujarric confirmed AP that deaths took place in those days.
Rebel Advance left behind out -of -court killings and forced civil consumption, said UN UN spokesman Jeremy Laurence on Friday. “Laurence said that” the group also occupied schools and hospitals in the province and we also subjected executions to summarizing at least 12 people “on January 26-28, adding that the group also occupied schools and hospitals in the province and subject to civilians forced consumption and forced labor to civilians .
Laurence said that Congish forces were also accused of sexual violence when fighting madness in the region, adding that the UN verifies reports that Congical Army raped 52 women in southern Kivu.
Humanitarian operations for “stopping, limiting the important line of life to provide assistance on the eastern (Congo)” – said Rose Tchwenko, director of the country of the Mercy Corps group in Congo.