Killings, Rapes by Rwanda-Backed M23 Rebels hrw: DRC
have also urged Rwanda to stop assisting the M23. Because Rwandan-supplied arms are contributing to M23's widespread and systematic abuses against the civilian population, governments providing military assistance to Rwanda, such as the US and France, should suspend that support. The EU should ensure that itsto the Rwanda Defence Force mission in northern Mozambique is adequately monitored so that the EU is not contributing indirectly to abusive military operations in eastern Congo.
In Kanombe, which M23 forces captured in August 2022, former residents said that several hundred armed M23 fighters entered the town wearing military uniforms, sometimes with RDF insignia, and body armor. The M23 harassed people and looted houses. They took what they wanted and took men away. I don't know where they took them.... After two weeks, they started raping women. They didn't care if we were married or not. They came to my house in the evening on February 20. They told my husband to leave. There were seven of them, and five raped me. My husband couldn't stand what happened to me and left me. I had to flee on my own, through the forest.
I offered them money, they said no. I asked for forgiveness. But they still held down my hands and legs and raped me until I lost consciousness.... Now I am pregnant, and I don't know whose baby it is. I am so ashamed. Now my husband has left for good.
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