Human Rights Watch: DR Congo's Yumbi Massacre Survivors Desperate for Justice
December 17, 2020
December 17, 2020
NEW YORK, Dec. 17 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:
In late December 2018, Father Nestor Longota, a Catholic priest, returned to Bongende, his home village in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo. "What I saw was unimaginable," he said last week. "There were putrefied bodies, some were mutilated, others had been burned in houses, and houses were destroyed."
A few days earlier, on December 16, hundreds of ethnic Batende - arme . . .
In late December 2018, Father Nestor Longota, a Catholic priest, returned to Bongende, his home village in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo. "What I saw was unimaginable," he said last week. "There were putrefied bodies, some were mutilated, others had been burned in houses, and houses were destroyed."
A few days earlier, on December 16, hundreds of ethnic Batende - arme . . .