Woman made to cook and eat human flesh, Congo group tells U.N.
By Michelle Nichols
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A Congolese girl was kidnapped twice by militants within the Democratic Republic of Congo, repeatedly raped and compelled to prepare dinner and eat human flesh, a Congolese rights group instructed the United Nations Safety Council on Wednesday.
Julienne Lusenge, president of girls’s rights group Feminine Solidarity for Built-in Peace and Growth (SOFEPADI), instructed the girl’s story whereas addressing the 15-member council concerning the conflict-torn east of Congo.
The U.N. Safety Council was assembly for a daily briefing on Congo, the place heavy combating between the federal government and insurgent teams since late Could has sparked a surge in violence.
Lusenge stated the girl was kidnapped by CODECO militants when she went to pay a ransom for an additional kidnapped member of the family. The girl instructed the rights group that she was repeatedly raped and bodily abused. Then she stated the militants slit a person’s throat.
“They pulled out his entrails and so they requested me to prepare dinner them. They introduced me two water containers to arrange the remainder of the meal. They then fed all the prisoners human flesh,” Lusenge instructed the Safety Council, recounting the girl’s story.
Lusenge stated the girl was launched after a couple of days, however whereas attempting to return residence was kidnapped by one other militia group whose members additionally repeatedly raped her.
“Once more I used to be requested to prepare dinner and eat human flesh,” the girl, who finally escaped, instructed SOFEPADI.
Lusenge didn’t title the second militant group throughout her council briefing. CODECO couldn’t be reached for remark.
CODECO is certainly one of a number of armed militias which have lengthy been combating over land and assets in Congo’s mineral-rich east – a battle that has killed 1000’s and displaced hundreds of thousands over the previous decade.
Congo’s military has been locked in heavy combating since late Could with the M23 insurgent group, which is waging its most sustained offensive since a 2012-2013 revolt that seized huge swathes of territory.
U.N. peacekeepers have been deployed in Congo for greater than 20 years.
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Modifying by Josie Kao)
