Rampant Intercommunal Violence in West hrw: DRC
previously documented
"The Congolese government response to the months long Kwamouth crisis has been wholly inadequate," Fessy said."The failure to provide meaningful and durable solutions over customary taxes and land tenure, as well as accountability for past atrocities, leaves communities exposed to more deadly cycles of violence and retaliation."Kwamouth is one of eight administrative territories in Mai-Ndombe province in western Democratic Republic of Congo.
attributed to the Congolese Interior Ministry's chief of staff and allegedly circulated by agents of the local office of the National Intelligence Agency suspended the tax hike. Farmers from the mainly Yaka community invoked the letter in refusing the increase. A priest said he went to Bisiala two days after the attack to bury his cousin and his daughter, who were both killed in front of their house. He said he personally counted 53 bodies and helped bury 7 children - 4 boys and 3 girls - in the same grave as his relatives."Soldiers who had come from Kinshasa found volunteers to bury the bodies," he said."I gave prayers for the dead.
Other survivors and witnesses gave similar accounts of being asked to not only confirm their ethnic group but also prove it by speaking the relevant language. "The humanitarian consequences have been intentionally downplayed [by the government], and there's been very little humanitarian assistance," an aid worker said. The UN source said aid agencies were overstretched with operations in eastern Congo and"it took time to mobilize and get the distributions started - aid really started rolling in November." Congolese authorities say they provided food, medicine, fabric, mattresses, buckets, and kitchen utensils to the displaced.
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