Rebellen supported their presence in the Eastern Congo, after Goma, the capital of the region, shared on Friday and at the same time expressed concerns about the executions they have learned.
On Thursday, the Congolese armed forces fended off the rebels on their offensive towards South Kivus Provincial capital Bakuvu, said residents and local officials.
The M23 Rebel Group has conquered several cities after confiscating the neighboring Goma, a humanitarian hub that is critical of many of the six million people who were sold by the conflict. You said you will march to the capital of Kinshasa from Congo, which is about 1,600 kilometers away.
The M23 group is the strongest of more than 100 armed groups, which in the mineral-rich east of Congo compete for control, which contains enormous deposits for a large part of the worldwide technology.
According to the UN experts, they are supported by around 4,000 soldiers from neighboring Rwanda, far more than in 2012 when they conquered Goma for the first time in a conflict that was driven by ethnic complaints.
Reports on executions, rape
The spokesman for the UN human rights office, Jeremy Laurence, spoke on Friday during a briefing about the deterioration of the human rights crisis after the uprising, including bombing on at least two internally displaced persons in which a non -specified number of people were killed.
“We have also documented summary executions of at least 12 people from M23,” said Laurence from January 26th to 28th and added that the group also occupied schools and hospitals in the province and that civilians were subject to compulsory military work and forced labor.
The World Food Program warns of the lack of food, clean water and medical care in Goma in the eastern Congo, where waves of the struggle displaced thousands of people and disrupted the supply chains.
Congolese armed forces were also accused of fighting anger in the region for sexual violence, said Laurence.
“We review that 52 women were raped by Congolese troops in South Kivu, including alleged reports on rape of gangs,” he said.
The residents, the food and goods from shops and warehouses in the city were showing recordings from Goma.
“This is something that will worsen a dangerous cycle of violence, since desperate times require desperate measures,” said Cynthia Jones, the emergency coordinator of the UN World Food Program in the Ostkongo, on Thursday.
The rebels who voluntarily rejected themselves as young people
An attack by the rebels in the Kalehe territory, about 140 kilometers from the provincial capital of South Kivu, was withdrawn by security forces on Thursday, said Lieutenant General Pacifique Masunzu, who commanded an important military defense zone in South Kivu.
Congolese military bases in Bukavu were emptied on Thursday to strengthen those on the way to the provincial capital, the residents of the Associated Press said.
According to Gabriel Kazanji, a local administrative officer, hundreds of young people registered on Friday as a volunteer to join military training in the provincial capital in the provincial capital. This is followed by Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi’s call on Thursday because of military mobilization of military masses.
The military of the Central African nation was weakened after it had lost hundreds of personnel and foreign mercenaries that resulted in the rebels after Goma’s fall.
When he competed on Friday as the new governor of North Kivu, to which Goma also belonged, General Maj swear. Gen. Somo Kakule Evariste “to switch to Goma as soon as possible” in order to restore the government’s control.
“This is not the time for talking,” said the general. “The flame of the resistance is never deleted.”
Goma grabs without water, electricity
The residents hiked for hours to get water out of the Kivusee for hours.
“We want the war to end so that we can resume normal life. If we come here every day, we won’t make it,” said Badeja Matanda, a resident of Goma.
M23 tried to assert its control over the city and said on Thursday that they are working to restore electricity and water supply, which were cut in the city with about two million people in the course of the fights.
“We will fight until we restore democracy,” said Coreile Nangaa, one of the political leaders of M23. “From a failed state to a modern state.”
In Goma, despair, looting and bodies are reported in the streets after the M23 rebels supported by Rwanda claimed to have captured the Congolese city. It is the latest step after years of fighting in the mineral -rich east of the country.
In his first public remarks, since the M23 rebels moved to Goma on Monday, Tshisekedi “vowed a strong and coordinated reaction” from his armed forces to push the rebels back, while he reaffirmed his commitment to a peaceful resolution.
In a video message, the Defense Minister of Congo, Guy Kabombo Muadiamvita, said that he instructed plans for every dialogue with the rebels to “be burned immediately”.
“We will stay here in the Congo.
