Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo - Awaiting Justice One Year After Ethnic Attack - Survivors Describe Killings of Seven Humanitarian Workers

Bujumbura — Congolese authorities have done virtually nothing to identify or bring to justice the killers of seven humanitarian workers in an ethnically motivated attack a year ago in South Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

On October 4, 2011, members of the Mai Mai Yakutumba, a largely ethnic Babembe armed group, attacked a vehicle of the nongovernmental organization Eben Ezer Ministry International in Kalungwe village, near the town of Fizi. The Mai Mai separated passengers based on their ethnicity and then executed the seven who were members of the Banyamulenge ethnic group.

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