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Congo-backed militia mutilates toddlers, burns villages: UN
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein of Jordan speaks during a news conference at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, May 1, 2017. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Pierre Albouy
20/06/2017
GENEVA (Reuters) - The government-backed Bana Mura militia in Congo has committed horrific crimes in ethnically-motivated attacks in the past few months, including cutting off toddlers' limbs and slicing open pregnant women, the U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday.
"Refugees from multiple villages in the Kamonya territory indicated that the Bana Mura have in the past two months shot dead, hacked or burned to death, and mutilated, hundreds of villagers, as well as destroying entire villages," he said.
"My team saw children as young as two whose limbs had been chopped off; many babies had machete wounds and severe burns," Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein told the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.
(Reporting by Tom Miles; editing by Stephanie Nebehay)
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