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Dozens killed in eastern DRC in latest attacks blamed on ADF,” Al Jazeera, November 17, 2020
Some three dozen people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC’s) troubled east, local officials have said, blaming a notorious armed group that has been accused of killing hundreds of civilians over the past year.
Twenty-nine bodies were found in the Virunga National Park after being “executed en masse”, Jean-Bosco Sebishimbo, the interior minister of North Kivu province, said on Tuesday.
He added that six civilians were also killed during “an armed attack” in the nearby village of Kokola earlier on Tuesday….
Sebishimbo said the first indications about the perpetrators point towards the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group that is “very active in the area”….
More than 1,000 civilians have been killed by the ADF in 2019-2020, according to UN figures….