Human Rights Watch also interviewed local activists, government and park officials, and UN staff members. This armed group has been involved in abductions in recent years, and although the involvement of current or former fighters cannot be ruled out, Human Rights Watch has not established their involvement in these recent cases or whether they respond to a chain of command.įrom December 2019 through June 2020, Human Rights Watch interviewed 37 people about the kidnappings, including 28 female survivors of sexual violence, 5 of whom were children at the time of the abuse. The Rwandan RUD-Urunana rebel group – a splinter faction of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) – controls much of the area around Bukoma.
“The Congolese government needs to end these gangs’ reign of terror while providing survivors – who face trauma and stigma – post-rape care and all the help they need.”
“Criminal gangs have demanded crippling ransoms from families and brutally raped scores of women and girls in Virunga National Park over the past three years,” said Thomas Fessy, senior Congo researcher at Human Rights Watch. The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo, MONUSCO, which has a field base within a 10-kilometer radius of the agricultural fields and areas where most kidnappings have occurred, should protect civilians by actively patrolling in high-risk areas, consistent with its mandate. Small groups armed with guns and machetes have beaten, tortured, and murdered hostages, raping women and girls, who make up more than half of them, while using threats to extort money from their families.Ĭongolese law enforcement should take steps to dismantle the criminal gangs and arrest those responsible for the kidnappings and sexual violence in the Bukoma area of Rutshuru territory in North Kivu province. “Despite our best efforts we couldn’t find out who any on the film were.”Ī Metropolitan Police spokesman said last night: “We do not give a running commentary on investigations.Criminal gangs have kidnapped for ransom at least 170 people near the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo between April 2017 and March 2020. “One of the men had a scar just under his belly button but there were no other distinguishable marks. “They were undoubtedly wealthy, both were wearing expensive looking suits, which they took off to reveal a middle-aged spread around the waist. However, it showed two men with the boy who were only seen from the neck down. The video had no audio, so we couldn’t pick up voices or accents. “A WPC matched photos we had taken of the flat with one particular video showing a young white boy of about 11 being raped. “At the time we had a number of officers who had the unenviable task of watching a number of pornographic videos, including those featuring children, which had been seized in Soho. “We had the lights and cameras tested but nothing came back – but forensic tests 30 years ago were not nearly as thorough as they are now.
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The camera was set up between two chairs and was focused on a patch of floor in the middle of the room.
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He said last night: “The lights and the camera looked professional and expensive, worth a few thousand pounds but they’d been discarded.