On Monday 25 May 2020 , villages in Congo's northeastern province of Ituri were once again at the brutal merci of gunmen, after suspected members of the Democratic Allied Forces(ADF) went on a shooting rampage, killing 14 people in the territory of Irumu. The following day the attackers would return to massacre 40 more civilians.
According to a local civil society movement, the number of deaths counted are only of those bodies recovered so far and that the death toll could be much higher. The movement added that some of the areas attacked were difficult to access because of the forest surroundedings
The first attack took place around 05:00am in the village of Makutano, before the near village of Sambako could fall victim.
For the past years the ADF have brought misery to the population of both North Kivu and Ituri Province, carrying out sprees of massacres against civilians. The Kivu Security Tracker(KST), an organisation monitoring the security situation in the region, had attributed last month massacre of 30 civilians to the rebel movement.
Currently a military operation, by the Congolese army, is underway to neutralise the rebels; although there have been some success in the operation, like the capturing of ADF headquarter in Madina, the vastness of the region and its dense forestry environment has been providing room for the rebels to escape and regroup
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