🇨🇩 M23 rebels killed 20 in November in eastern DR Congo

Fighters from Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 rebel group killed at least 20 men and raped scores of women and girls in the east in November, Amnesty International said in a report. Amnesty said its findings were based on research conducted on the ground in M23-occupied territory.

The reported death toll was much lower than estimates from the United Nations, which said in December the rebels executed at least 131 people in reprisal killings in a campaign of murder, rape and looting in Kishishe and Bambo villages.

M23 spokesperson dismissed the report. "There were no serious investigations because they did not come to the field," he told, adding that none of his soldiers would commit rape.

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