Civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo remain victims of mass killings, severe torture and widespread rape at the hands of numerous armed groups operating in the provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Orientale. Conflict in the DR Congo has resulted in an estimated 5.4 million civilian deaths since 1996.
In the eastern provinces of North and South Kivu, civilians are targeted by the rebel Forces Democratique de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR). During its attacks, the FDLR burns villages and killed innocent residents. Human Rights Watch estimates that these attacks have killed more than 1,000 civilians since January 2009 .
A reporter from the Associated press Michelle Faul reported a story of mass graves in Congo. They are hidden all over in the banana plantations high up a mountain above the cloud line, at the end of a treacherous dirt track slippery with mud and animal dung. A native told Faul a story of how the Rwandan soldiers call meeting and put these people in a hut adn then line them up two by two then force then out to be attacked by the soldiers using hoes, picks and axesmore than 300 villagers died that morning of Oct. 20, 1996. These people killed are most likely in these one of the hundreds of the mass graves throught the mountain side.
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