The M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo has condemned “genocide and targeted killings” against the Tutsi community by government forces and its allies in the east.
It said that the government’s coalition forces had on Tuesday “attacked our positions in Bwiza and its surroundings, in total breach of the current ceasefire”.
The M23 said government-allied forces had killed innocent civilians, destroying houses, looting and slaughtering their cattle, noting that the ongoing attacks had displaced civilians and wounded many.
“These targeted killings of Tutsi, and those who have rejected the genocide ideology by the said DR Congo government’s coalition, while the international and national community remained tight-lipped, take us back to the time prior to the genocide of 1994 perpetrated against the Tutsi in Rwanda,” it said in a statement.
