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Two Men Burnt Alive in DR Congo after Attack
[AnNahar] Two men were burnt alive Saturday by civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
's volatile east after they attacked a military office, a local official said.
Better to be caught by Bangladeshi townspeople, with their iron bars, than by DRC civilians, with their fondness for incineration.
Kipling advises strongly against being captured by Afghan women...
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 Agence La Belle France Presse.

"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 front man 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 gangs operating in the region.

The Congolese army (FARDC), the large U.N. mission deployed in the troubled country (MONUSCO) and several diplomats blame a recent wave of attacks in the Beni region on a mainly Moslem 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 U.N. soldiers.

With around 20,000 men, including a special brigade, MONUSCO has a mandate to protect civilians and to neutralize gangs that have emerged in the east over more than 20 years.
Posted by: trailing wife 2014-12-21
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