Villagers have described being ordered to bury bodies in mass graves after a rebel "massacre" in the DR Congo's volatile east, which the government says left more than 100 civilians dead. "We put three or six people in the same pit," Kishishe resident Rukundo told AFP, saying rebels forced him to bury the dead. The M23 rebels then "started to kill everything they saw", equating the inhabitants with the militiamen they had just fought. "In the village, there were Mai-Mai, FDLR, the M23, it's difficult to know who carried out the killings," he said. The politician believes the M23 may have indiscriminately killed civilians but also condemned the Mai-Mai for "bursting into a residential area".

Source: The Star December 04, 2022 09:08 UTC