DRC: “unbearable” situation in Ituri, the cry of alarm from civil society after a deadly weekend
Deadly weekend in Ituri, alerts civil society in this eastern province of the DRC. On Saturday April 6 alone, several attacks by armed groups plunged the region into mourning.
Officers of the Codeco armed group advance in the village of Linga, January 13, 2022, in Ituri. AFP - ALEXIS HUGUET
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In the territory of Djugu, during a double incursion by Codeco militiamen in two villages, seventeen people were killed, seven seriously injured and four kidnapped. The same day in the evening, eight civilians were killed in an attack attributed to the ADF-Nalu group in the neighboring territory of Irumu.
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We are under siege
”
An intolerable situation for Dieudonné Lossa, head of civil society in Ituri, interviewed by
Paulina Zidi
: “
The province of Ituri is an integral part of the DRC and what is happening there is unbearable. No one can imagine that people are dying day and night while we are under siege
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The state of siege was decreed to secure the population of Ituri, but the state of siege without the military
,” points out this civil society leader in Ituri.
We have always said, since the fall of Bunagana, all the posts then occupied by the military have remained empty and occupied by militiamen who move around as they see fit. This is how they can kill here and how they can kill there. While the DRC's attention is now focused on North Kivu, this worries us. We fear that Ituri will be forgotten like this to be at the mercy of armed groups.
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