In less than two weeks, close to 50 people have been killed in North Kivu and Ituri provinces by suspected members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels, a Ugandan rebel group operating in eastern DR Congo.

The MPs decried the silence of public institutions in the face of the worsening situation, whereas the population of Beni, Kanyabayonga, Erengeti, Butembo and Lubero marked their own mourning day on Wednesday.

The same MPs from North Kivu, supported by their colleagues from other provinces, recently boycotted parliamentary sittings to protest against insecurity in their region.

DR Congo army, supported by the UN peacekeepers, has launched an operation against the rebel group in the eastern part of the country.

Recently, North Kivu civil society groups revealed that ADF had killed over 1,000 people in the east of the country since October 2014. Enditem

Source: Xinhua