Two men were burnt alive Saturday by civilians in the Democratic
Republic of Congo’s volatile east after they attacked a military office,
a local official said.
The incident in the town of Beni, about
250 kilometres (150 miles) north of the North Kivu capital Goma,
followed an attack on Friday night.
“The military prosecutor’s
offices were attacked at around 9:00 pm by men whose identities are not
yet clear,” Beni’s mayor Bwanakawa Nyonyi told AFP.
“They were
repulsed by the army,” he said, adding that two of the attackers were
found by locals at a nearby plot early Saturday and “were burnt alive
while three others are in the hands of the army.”
A military spokesman confirmed the attack on the office but did not give details.
Beni,
a major trade centre in the area, has been wracked by violence and
unrest over the past two decades with both local and foreign armed
groups operating in the region.
The Congolese army (FARDC), the
large UN mission deployed in the troubled country (MONUSCO) and several
diplomats blame a recent wave of attacks in the Beni region on a mainly
Muslim rebel movement from neighbouring Uganda, the Allied Democratic
Forces (ADF).
Recent massacres in Beni have claimed more than 260 lives since October, according to local sources.
Driven
out of Uganda by the army of President Yoweri Museveni, the ADF has
maintained bases in the eastern DRC since 1995 and is currently
estimated to number about 400 fighters.
The Congolese army tried
to wipe out the ADF this year, but after initial successes in an
offensive, the FARDC troops fell back and the Ugandan rebels reasserted
control.
Residents of the Beni region have protested at the perceived inaction and incompetence of the army and the UN soldiers.
With
around 20,000 men, including a special brigade, MONUSCO has a mandate
to protect civilians and to neutralise armed groups that have emerged in
the east over more than 20 years.
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