‘Look, They Are Dying’: Video Appears to Show Massacre by Congolese Soldiers
Human Rights Watch, Western diplomats and United Nations officials said they were investigating the video, which was consistent with
United Nations reports this week of Congolese government soldiers ruthlessly crushing a local militia in the Kasaï-Central Province.
" Human rights activists said that the video was filmed by a Congolese government soldier who was part of the execution squad and
that the soldier may have felt bad about what happened and leaked it to assuage his conscience. that Watch how they get killed like animals.
This week, a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Liz Throssell, said
as many as 101 people, including 39 women, may have been killed in clashes in the Kasaï area.
Lambert Mende, Congo’s information minister, said the video was not filmed in Congo, but possibly another African country, and
that it was an attempt by nongovernmental organizations "to destroy the image of the D.R.C." Steve Wembi contributed reporting from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
These images are part of a battlefield video that was shared with The New York Times on Friday
and that, thanks to Congolese human rights activists, has begun to make the rounds on Facebook and other social media.
17, 2017
Footage shared by human rights activists appeared to show soldiers killing unarmed civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
United Nations said that The video shows shocking footage of killings and executions of civilians by uniformed personnel,